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F-Secure Security Bulletin FSC-2007-6
Vulnerabilities in scanning of specially crafted archives and certain packed executables

Date issued 2007-09-27
Last updated 2007-09-27
Risk factor High (Low/Medium/High/Critical)
Brief description Specially crafted archives and packed executables can bypass antivirus scanning.
Software F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers version 7.00
Affected versions F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers version 7.00
Affected platforms Windows Server 2003 64-bit edition for x64 processors
Bulletin location http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2007-6.shtml
Issue: Placing a specially crafted archive or packed executable into the system32 folder may allow an attacker to bypass F-Secure's antivirus.


Products: F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers version 7.00
Risk Factor: High


Mitigating Factors:
  • Exploitation of the vulnerabilities requires specially crafted archives or packed executables
  • Issue only exists on 64-bit server platforms
  • There are no known exploits.
Patch availability:
ProductVersionsDownload
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers 7.00 ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/hotfix/fsav/fsav720-01-signed.fsfix

Credits: F-Secure wants to thank Mr Papadorotheoun for pinpointing this issue.

Revision History: FSC-2007-6 - 2007-09-27


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