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Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack.



Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack.

--- [Vulnerable Products] ---
     Only tested on...

* Norton Antivirus 2002
* Norton Antivirus 2003
* Mcafee VirusScan 6
* Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan Enterprise 7.1
* Windows Xp default ZIP manager [report's wrong size of compress ZIP files.]

There has been multiple reports [Unconfirmed]
*F-Prot 4.4.2 for Linux
*Panda Antivirus

Are vulnerable.


Risk Impact: Medium

--- [Details] ---

While having a manual scan of compressed files; several Antivirus, Trojan, Spy ware scanners suffer a DoS attack if the software tries to completely extract the archive and scan its content for a hostile file.

--- [Proof of Concept] ---
Please download this file.
http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/SERVER_dwn.zip

Moreover it's not safe to set automatically 'Quarantine/delete' option set for your AV scanner as it may try to Quarantine the virus by extracting the archive.

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Bipin Gautam
http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/

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