F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200612-12 / f-prot
Release Date	December 12, 2006
Latest Revision	December 12, 2006: 01
Impact	high
Exploitable	remote

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
app-antivirus/f-prot	< 4.6.7	>= 4.6.7	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #157612

Synopsis

F-Prot Antivirus contains a buffer overflow and other unspecified vulnerabilities, possibly allowing the remote execution of arbitrary code.

2. Impact Information

Background

F-Prot Antivirus is a FRISK Software antivirus program that can used with procmail.

Description

F-Prot Antivirus version 4.6.7 fixes a heap-based buffer overflow, an infinite loop, and other unspecified vulnerabilities.

Impact

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.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All F-Prot users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/f-prot-4.6.7"

4. References

Page updated December 12, 2006

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