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[SA34700] Gentoo f-prot Corrupt ELF Headers Denial of Service

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Apr 15 2009 - 18:40:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Gentoo f-prot Corrupt ELF Headers Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34700

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34700/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has acknowledged a vulnerability in f-prot, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within f-prot when
processing ELF files with certain headers. This can be exploited to
cause a crash via a specially crafted ELF file.

SOLUTION:
Update to "app-antivirus/f-prot-6.0.2" or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jonathan Brossard, iViZ Techno Solutions

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GLSA-200904-14:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200904-14.xml

iviz-sr-08016:
http://www.ivizsecurity.com/security-advisory-iviz-sr-08016.html

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