Vulnerability CVE-2008-3244
Published: 2008-07-21   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The scanning engine before 4.4.4 in F-Prot Antivirus before 6.0.9.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (engine crash) via a CHM file with a large nb_dir value that triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
F-prot -> F-prot antivirus 
F-prot -> Scanning engine 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43835
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2124/references
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020507
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30253
http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_fprot_out-of-bound_memory_access_DoS.php
http://www.f-prot.com/download/ReleaseNotesWindows.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/31118
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