GLSA 200612-12: F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	12/12/2006
Bugs:	#157612
ID:	200612-12

Synopsis

F-Prot Antivirus contains a buffer overflow and other unspecified vulnerabilities, possibly allowing the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

F-Prot Antivirus is a FRISK Software antivirus program that can used with procmail.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-antivirus/f-prot	< 4.6.7	>= 4.6.7	All supported architectures

Description

F-Prot Antivirus version 4.6.7 fixes a heap-based buffer overflow, an infinite loop, and other unspecified vulnerabilities.

Impact

Among other weaker impacts, a remote attacker could send an e-mail containing a malicious file that would trigger the buffer overflow vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running F-Prot, which may be the root user.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All F-Prot users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/f-prot-4.6.7"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-12.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.