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>> AVG Anti-Virus UPX File Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : AVG Anti-Virus UPX File Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2225
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3373
CWE ID : CWE-369
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-07-29
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A vulnerability has been identified in AVG Anti-Virus, which could be exploited by remote attackers or malware to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by a divide-by-zero error when processing malformed UPX compressed files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application via a malicious and specially crafted UPX executable, creating a denial of service condition.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Sergio shadown Alvarez (n.runs AG).
ChangeLog
2008-07-29 : Initial release
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