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PCWorks: AVG Anti-Virus Vulnerabilities
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2006-11-14 14:47:37
TITLE:
AVG Anti-Virus Multiple File Parsing Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22811

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.c
om/advisories/22811/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Unknown, DoS, System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.x
http://secunia.com/p
roduct/6489/
AVG Antivirus 6.x
http://secunia.com/pr
oduct/335/
AVG Antivirus Professional
http://secunia.com/pr
oduct/336/
AVG Antivirus Server
http://secunia.com/pr
oduct/337/

DESCRIPTION:
Vulnerabilities in AVG Anti-Virus, which can be exploited by

malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or 
potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An integer overflow error when parsing CAB archives can
be
exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a
specially
crafted CAB archive.

2) An unspecified error when parsing RAR archives can be 
exploited to
cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted
RAR
archive.

3) An uninitialized variable error exists within the parsing
of 
CAB
archives.

4) A division by zero error when parsing DOC files may in 
certain
cases cause a DoS via a specially crafted DOC file.

5) An unspecified error exists within the parsing of EXE
files.

The vulnerabilities are reported in AVG Antivirus software 
versions
prior to 7.1.407.

SOLUTION:
Update to the latest version.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Grisoft:
htt
p://www.grisoft.com/doc/36365/lng/us/tpl/tpl01
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