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Symantec AntiVirus Engine CAB Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-07-040: July 12th, 2007

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Affected Vendors

Affected Products

TippingPoint™ IPS Customer Protection

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Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems with affected installations of Symantec's AntiVirus Engine. User interaction is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists during the process of scanning multiple maliciously formatted CAB archives. The parsing routine implicitly trusts certain user-supplied values that can result in an exploitable heap corruption.

Vendor Response

Symantec has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:

Disclosure Timeline

    2006-11-09 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2007-07-12 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Anonymous