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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900018
Category:Denial of Service
Title:F-PROT Antivirus Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities
Summary:F-PROT Antivirus is prone to multiple denial of service (DoS); vulnerabilities.
Description:Summary:
F-PROT Antivirus is prone to multiple denial of service (DoS)
vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Insight:
The issues are due to:

- input validation error while processing the nb_dir field of
CHM file's header.

- improper handling of specially crafted UPX-compressed files,
Microsoft Office files, and ASPack-compressed files.

Vulnerability Impact:
Remote attackers can easily crash the engine/service via
specially crafted files.

Affected Software/OS:
F-Prot Antivirus for Windows prior to 6.0.9.0 on Windows (All).

Solution:
Upgrade to latest F-PROT Antivirus or later.

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-3244
BugTraq ID: 30253
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30253
http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_fprot_out-of-bound_memory_access_DoS.php
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020507
http://secunia.com/advisories/31118
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2124/references
XForce ISS Database: fprotantivirus-chm-dos(43835)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43835
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG

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