n.runs-SA-2007.012 - Avira Antivir Antivirus TAR Denial of Service

2007-05-3100:00:00

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n.runs-SA-2007.012 30-May-2007

Vendor: Avira GmbH, http://www.avira.com
Affected Product: Avira Antivir Antivirus
Vulnerability: Infinity Loop DoS (remote)
Risk: HIGH

Vendor communication:

2007/05/07 initial notification to Avira GmbH
2007/05/07 Avira GmbH Response
2007/05/08 PGP public keys exchange
2007/05/09 PoC files sent to Avira GmbH
2007/05/10 Avira GmbH acknowledged and validated the PoC files
2007/05/16 Avira GmbH sent fix release schedule and fixed
engine
2007/05/17 Sergio Alvarez tested fixed engine
2007/05/23 Avira GmbH released Update with fixes

Overview:

Avira, a company with over 15 millions customers and more than 250
employees is a worldwide leading supplier of self-developed
security solutions for professional and private use. With more than 20
years of experience, the company is one of the pioneers in this field.
In addition to programs specifically for use on single workstations,
Avira primarily offers professional solutions for cross-system
protection of networks on various levels. These include products for
workstations, file, mail and web servers. Gateway computers can be
managed as workstation computers via a central management console for
all operating systems. In addition to the management products of the
individual solutions, security programs for PDAs, smartphones and
embedded devices are also offered. Avira AntiVir Personal, used by
millions of private users, represents a significant contribution to
security.

Description:

A remotely exploitable vulnerability has been found in the file parsing
engine.

In detail, the following flaw was determined:

Infinite Loop in .TAR files parsing

Impact:
This problem can lead to remote denial of service provoked by high CPU
consume and exhaustion of storage resource if an attacker carefully
crafts a file that exploits the aforementioned vulnerability. The
vulnerability is present in Avira Antivir Antivirus software versions
prior to the update Version 7.03.00.09.

Solution:
The vulnerability was reported on 07.May.2007 and an update has been
issued on 23.May.2007 to solve this vulnerability through the regular
update mechanism.

Credit:
Bugs found by Sergio Alvarez of n.runs AG.

References:
http://forum.antivir-pe.de/thread.php?threadid=22528

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