Security advisories

CVE-2022-28871: Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability

Description

STATUS: Fixed

RISK LEVEL: Medium

FIX: No User action is required. The required fix has been published through automatic update channel with HydraLinux update 2022-04-12_01.

Affected products

  • All F‑Secure end­point protection products on Windows and Mac

Platforms

  • All supported platforms for the affected products

More information

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F‑Secure Atlant whereby the fsicapd component used in certain F‑Secure products while scanning larger packages/fuzzed files consume too much memory eventually can crash the scanning engine. The exploit can be triggered remotely by an attacker.

This issue was reported to F‑Secure through the Vulnerability Reward Program. No known exploit or attack has been seen in the wild.

Credits

F‑Secure Corporation would like to thank Antti Levomäki and Christian Jalio from Forcepoint for bringing this issue to our attention.

Date Issued: 2022-04-25