RE: Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack.

["Brian Christmas" <bchristmas () forwardtechnology net>]

Hello,

Just tried this using PC-Cillin version 11.31 with def file of 1.905.00.


With default settings real-time scan did not detect a virus in the zip
file.  Doing a manual scan hosed the PC.  Tried to kill pc-cillin
process but was unable to.  

Next I tested by maxing out the scan layer for both manual and real-time
settings.  Real-time detected the EICAR virus but was unable to
quarantine or delete the file.  As for the manual scan it again hosed my
PC where the only thing I could do was a hard reboot.

Will test this on Trend Micro's Client/Server/Messaging next.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bipin gautam [mailto:visitbipin () hotmail com] 
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 4:39 PM
> To: cert () cert org; bugtraq () securityfocus com
> Cc: wk () c4i org; vulndiscuss () vulnwatch org; 
> vulndiscuss-owner () vulnwatch org
> Subject: Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack.
>
> Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack.
>
> --- [Vulnerable Products] ---
>       Only tested on...
>
> * Norton Antivirus 2002
> * Norton Antivirus 2003
> * Mcafee VirusScan 6
> * Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan Enterprise 7.1
> * Windows Xp default ZIP manager [report's wrong size of 
> compress ZIP files.]
>
> There has been multiple reports [Unconfirmed] *F-Prot 4.4.2 
> for Linux *Panda Antivirus
>
> Are vulnerable.
>
>
> Risk Impact: Medium
>
> --- [Details] ---
>
> While having a manual scan of compressed files; several 
> Antivirus, Trojan, Spy ware scanners suffer a DoS attack if 
> the software tries to completely extract the archive and scan 
> its content for a hostile file.
>
> --- [Proof of Concept] ---
> Please download this file.
> http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/SERVER_dwn.zip
>
> Moreover it's not safe to set automatically 
> 'Quarantine/delete' option set for your AV scanner as it may 
> try to Quarantine the virus by extracting the archive.
>
> -----------
> Bipin Gautam
> http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/
>
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