Description
Mcafee FreeScan allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly arbitrary code via a long string in the ScanParam property of a COM object, which may trigger a buffer overflow.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Mcafee FreeScan CoMcFreeScan Browser - Object Buffer Overflow (PoC) EDB-23920 · dos · Apr 7, 2004 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20040407 Symantec, McAfee and Panda ActiveX controls mailing-list
- 10071 vdb-entry
- http://theinsider.deep-ice.com/texts/advisory54.txt
- freescan-mcfscan-bo(15772) vdb-entry
- 20040407 Mcafee FreeScan - Remote Buffer Overflow and Private Information Disclosure mailing-list
- 20040407 Mcafee FreeScan - Remote Buffer Overflow and Private Information Disclosure mailing-list
- 11313 third-party-advisory