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Title : F-PROT Antivirus Archive Scanning Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2283
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3447
CWE ID : CWE-606
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-04

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A vulnerability has been identified in F-PROT Antivirus, which could be exploited by remote attackers or malware to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an infinite loop when processing malformed archive files (e.g. ZIP), which could be exploited by attackers to exhaust all available memory resources via a malicious file, creating a denial of service condition.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Knud Erik Hojgaard.

ChangeLog

2008-08-04 : Initial release

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