AVG Anti-Virus UPX Processing DoS Vulnerability
🗓️ 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVG Scanning Engine < 8.0.156 UPX Parsing DoS | 4 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| AVG Anti-Virus Crafted UPX File Handling Divide-by-zero Remote DoS | 30 Jul 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| CVE-2008-3373 | 30 Jul 200817:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2008-3373 | 30 Jul 200817:00 | – | cvelist | |
| EUVD-2008-3360 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2008-3373 | 30 Jul 200817:41 | – | nvd | |
| AVG Anti-Virus UPX Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability | 22 Aug 200800:00 | – | openvas | |
| Design/Logic Flaw | 30 Jul 200817:41 | – | prion |
| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/30417 |
| grisoft | www.grisoft.com/ww.94247 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900017");
script_version("2025-03-05T05:38:52+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-03-05 05:38:52 +0000 (Wed, 05 Mar 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-08-22 10:29:01 +0200 (Fri, 22 Aug 2008)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-3373");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_name("AVG Anti-Virus UPX Processing DoS Vulnerability");
script_dependencies("smb_reg_service_pack.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("SMB/WindowsVersion");
script_require_ports(139, 445);
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.grisoft.com/ww.94247");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30417");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"AVG AntiVirus is prone to a denial of service (DoS)
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is caused to a divide by zero error in file parsing
engine while handling UPX compressed executables.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"AVG Anti-Virus prior to 8.0.156.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 8.0.156 or later.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Remote attackers with successful exploitation could deny the
service by causing the scanning engine to crash.");
exit(0);
}
include("smb_nt.inc");
if(!get_kb_item("SMB/WindowsVersion"))
exit(0);
if(!registry_key_exists(key:"SOFTWARE\AVG"))
exit(0);
for(i = 1; i <= 8; i++) {
avgVer = registry_get_sz(key:"SOFTWARE\AVG\AVG" + i + "\LinkScanner\Prevalence", item:"CODEVER");
if(avgVer) {
# nb: version < 8.0.156
if(egrep(pattern:"^([0-7]\..*|8\.0(\.([0-9]?[0-9]|1[0-4][0-9]|15[0-5])))$", string:avgVer)) {
security_message(port:0, data:"The target host was found to be vulnerable");
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
}
}
exit(99);Data
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