Description
FRISK Software F-Prot Antivirus before 4.6.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted ACE file. NOTE: this issue has at least a partial overlap with CVE-2006-6294.
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
- F-Prot AntiVirus 4.6.6 - 'ACE' Denial of Service EDB-2892 · dos · Dec 4, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 23328 third-party-advisory
- http://www.f-prot.com/news/gen_news/061201_release_unix467.html
- fprot-ace-dos(30707) vdb-entry
- 1017331 vdb-entry
- 21420 vdb-entry
- 1998 third-party-advisory
- 20061204 F-Prot Antivirus for Unix: heap overflow and Denial of Service mailing-list
- 2892 exploit
- http://gleg.net/fprot.txt
- GLSA-200612-12 vendor-advisory
- 20061204 F-Prot Antivirus for Unix: heap overflow and Denial of Service mailing-list