ID CVE-2008-5524 Type cve Reporter cve@mitre.org Modified 2018-10-11T20:55:00
Description
CAT-QuickHeal 10.00 and possibly 9.50, when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 is used, allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an HTML document by placing an MZ header (aka "EXE info") at the beginning, and modifying the filename to have (1) no extension, (2) a .txt extension, or (3) a .jpg extension, as demonstrated by a document containing a CVE-2006-5745 exploit.
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