A buffer overflow vulnerability was reported in several F-Secure antivirus products, and could be exploited by attackers or worms to compromise a system. This flaw resides in the F-Secure AntiVirus Library used to parse different file formats to detect malware. Before archive decompression, the library does not properly check the length of certain fields, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by sending an e-mail containing a crafted ARJ archive file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by ISS
ChangeLog
2005-02-10 : Initial release
2005-02-15 : Updated CVE
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