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From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o>
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Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200612-12 ] F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:19:07
Message-Id: 200612122257.41114.jaervosz@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200612-12
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7 Severity: High
8 Title: F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities
9 Date: December 12, 2006
10 Bugs: #157612
11 ID: 200612-12
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15 Synopsis
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18 F-Prot Antivirus contains a buffer overflow and other unspecified
19 vulnerabilities, possibly allowing the remote execution of arbitrary
20 code.
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22 Background
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25 F-Prot Antivirus is a FRISK Software antivirus program that can used
26 with procmail.
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28 Affected packages
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32 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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34 1 app-antivirus/f-prot < 4.6.7 >= 4.6.7
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36 Description
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39 F-Prot Antivirus version 4.6.7 fixes a heap-based buffer overflow, an
40 infinite loop, and other unspecified vulnerabilities.
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42 Impact
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45 Among other weaker impacts, a remote attacker could send an e-mail
46 containing a malicious file that would trigger the buffer overflow
47 vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
48 user running F-Prot, which may be the root user.
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50 Workaround
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53 There is no known workaround at this time.
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55 Resolution
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58 All F-Prot users should upgrade to the latest version:
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60 # emerge --sync
61 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/f-prot-4.6.7"
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63 References
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66 [ 1 ] CVE-2006-6293
67 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6293
68 [ 2 ] CVE-2006-6294
69 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6294
70 [ 3 ] CVE-2006-6352
71 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6352
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73 Availability
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76 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
77 the Gentoo Security Website:
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79 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-12.xml
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81 Concerns?
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84 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
85 confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
86 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
87 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
88 http://bugs.gentoo.org.
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90 License
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93 Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
94 belongs to its owner(s).
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96 The contents of this document are licensed under the
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99 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5