Multiple vulnerabilities have benn identified in F-Prot Antivirus for UNIX, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service.
The first flaw is due to a heap overflow error in the CHM unpacker when handling malformed files, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to compromise a vulnerable system.
The second flaw is due to an error when processing malformed ACE archives, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Evgeny Legerov
ChangeLog
2006-12-02 : Initial release
2006-12-04 : Updated Description
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