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Secunia Research 14/09/2005

- AVIRA Antivirus ACE Archive Handling Buffer Overflow -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software.......................................... ..........1
Severity.......................................... ...................2
Description of Vulnerability..................................... ....3
Solution.......................................... ...................4
Time Table............................................. ..............5
Credits........................................... ...................6
References........................................ ...................7
About Secunia........................................... .............8
Verification...................................... ...................9

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1) Affected Software

AVIRA Desktop for Windows version 1.00.00.68
with AVPACK32.DLL version 6.31.0.3.

Prior versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Highly Critical
Impact: System access
Where: Remote

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3) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in AVIRA Desktop for
Windows antivirus, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when reading the
filename of a compressed file from an ACE archive. This can be
exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when an ACE archive
containing a compressed file with an overly long filename is scanned.

Successful exploitation allows arbitrary code execution, but
requires that archive scanning is enabled.

The vulnerability is related to:
SA14359

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4) Solution

Update to the latest version via online update.
(AVPACK32.DLL version 6.31.1.7).

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5) Time Table

05/09/2005 - Initial vendor notification.
05/09/2005 - Initial vendor reply.
06/09/2005 - Vendor provides updated version for testing.
14/09/2005 - Public disclosure.

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6) Credits

Discovered by Tan Chew Keong, Secunia Research.

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7) References

AVIRA:
http://www.avira.com/en/news/avira_d...ndows_patched_
against_vulnerability.html

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9) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-43/advisory/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

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