Security Advisories

FSC-2023-2: 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 Capricorn database on 2023-02-06_07..

Affected Products

All F‑Secure endpoint protection products for Windows and Mac

Affected platforms

All supported platforms for the affected products

More Information

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F‑Secure products whereby the aeelf.dll component crashes. This can lead to a possible scanning engine crash. 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 would like to thank faty420 for bringing this issue to our attention.

NOTE

We have applied for, but not yet received a CVE identifier for this Advisory. We will update the advisory page once we have obtained the CVE number.

Date issued: 2023-02-15