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Old 21-12-2006, 11:32   #1
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NOD32 Antivirus Engine DOC and CHM Parsing Vulnerabilities

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Secunia Advisory: SA23459
Release Date: 2006-12-21


Critical: Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

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Description: Sergio Alvarez has reported some vulnerabilities in the NOD32 Antivirus engine, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An integer-overflow within the parsing of DOC files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted DOC file.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

2) A division-by-zero error within the parsing of CHM files can be exploited to cause a DoS via a specially crafted CHM file.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.1743.

Solution: Update to the latest version.
Just a heads up, as this seems to be quite a popular AV with some CF members, and is listed as highly critical.


EDIT: This is only an advisory for people who haven't updated NOD32, as this was fixed sometime ago, but has still appeared on Secunia for some unknown reason.
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