A vulnerability has been identified in various F-Secure products, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to bypass security checks. This issue is caused by an error when parsing specially crafted CAB or RAR archives, which could be exploited to bypass security restrictions and cause a vulnerable scanner to not detect malware stored in a malicious archive.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Thierry Zoller (n.runs AG).
ChangeLog
2008-02-14 : Initial release
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