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Offline polonus

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Panda AV suffers from security flaw
« on: December 02, 2005, 09:33:29 AM »
Hello forum members,


Panda AV has a security flaw & suffers from a buffer overflow in certain circumstances, that could lead to systems being compromised or taken over.
Read here: http://www.security.nnov.ru/Kdocument471.html

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Re: Panda AV suffers from security flaw
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2005, 12:20:38 PM »
And avast? Will it suffer from this problem too?
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Re: Panda AV suffers from security flaw
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2005, 01:24:21 PM »
Hallo Tech,

Read here: http://www.rem0te.com/public/images/panda.pdf The vulnerability (highly critical) is caused due to a boundary error in "pskcmp.dll" when performing Lempel-Ziv decompression of ZOO-archives. This can be exploited to cause a heap-buffer overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution when a malicious ZOO archive is scanned. Threat: system access from remote.
Solution: filter ZOO archives at email and proxy gateways.
Other vendors may have problems whenever they share this PANDA technology. Look here:
http://www.spywaredata.com/spyware/malware/pskcmp.dll.php

That is the best survey I can give you, else we here from Vlk, I guess (ustawiena ..).

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« Last Edit: December 02, 2005, 01:30:15 PM by polonus »
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Re: Panda AV suffers from security flaw
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2005, 03:06:35 PM »
That is the best survey I can give you, else we here from Vlk, I guess (ustawiena ..).
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