Norton Antivirus 2002 fails to scan files with special character(s) properly.
Subject: Norton Antivirus 2002 fails to scan files with special character(s)
properly.
Published: Friday, 05 March, 2004
Discovered By: Bipin Gautam ( hUNT3R )
Product Version: Norton Antivirus 2002 [ ver: 8.00.58 ] (~Only tested On...~)
Risk Impact: Low-Medium
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Details:
During a 'manual scan' of a folder, if Norton Antivirus (NAV) encounters a file
/folder name with 'some' ASCII characters ( 1-31) NAV can't further proceed
the manual scan and its front-end 'NAVW32.exe' crashes! This Bug has no impact
in the NAV Auto-Protect Engine.
Exploit: http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/test_nav.zip
Create a folder (say: '!' ) and put some sub-folders and files in it. The
file/sub-folder name must contain ASCII character(s) ( 1-31) . Have a manual
scan of the folder named '!' NAV can't proceed the scan and crashes!
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