CVE-2008-5538

CVE-2008-5538 describes a malware-detection bypass when using Internet Explorer 6/7 with Prevx Prevx1 2. An MZ header is prepended to an HTML document and the filename altered (no extension, .txt, or .jpg), enabling bypass of malware detection as demonstrated by CVE-2006-5745. The connected docum...

CVE-2008-5538

Prevx Prevx1 2, 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 ...