A vulnerability has been identified in McAfee VirusScan, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the "DUNZIP32.dll" library when handling specially crafted virus definition files, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to download a specially crafted virus definition file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Juha-Matti Laurio
ChangeLog
2006-03-30 : Initial release
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