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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200612-12
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Severity: High
Title: F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 12, 2006
Bugs: #157612
ID: 200612-12
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Synopsis
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F-Prot Antivirus contains a buffer overflow and other unspecified
vulnerabilities, possibly allowing the remote execution of arbitrary
code.
Background
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F-Prot Antivirus is a FRISK Software antivirus program that can used
with procmail.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-antivirus/f-prot < 4.6.7 >= 4.6.7
Description
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F-Prot Antivirus version 4.6.7 fixes a heap-based buffer overflow, an
infinite loop, and other unspecified vulnerabilities.
Impact
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Among other weaker impacts, a remote attacker could send an e-mail
containing a malicious file that would trigger the buffer overflow
vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running F-Prot, which may be the root user.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All F-Prot users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/f-prot-4.6.7"
References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-6293
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6293
[ 2 ] CVE-2006-6294
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6294
[ 3 ] CVE-2006-6352
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6352
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-12.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
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