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[ Archive for July, 2007 ]

•  Unrar for Linux Denial Of Service vulnerability.

Vendor: RARLABS (http://www.rarlabs.com)

Product: Unrar for linux (freeware).

Versions affected: All upto 3.70 beta 4

Severity: Moderate

Issue

The unrar for Linux results in crash due to processing of standard filters in RAR VM, while
processing a special crafted compressed RAR file. This happens only while extracting the
contents from the compressed file.

Impact

Any programs/softwares using the code from unrar for Linux from rarlabs for processing RAR files
are vulnerable.

PoC

http://www.metaeye.org/codes/corrupted.rar
The corrupted file has only one byte change from the original. At offset 0xE9, 80—>81.

References

1. Bugtraq BID 24866.

Status

Reported: 20/06/2007
Fixed in version 3.7 beta 5.



•  Clam AntiVirus RAR File Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability.

Vendor: Clam AntiVirus (http://www.clamav.net)

Product: Clamav (libclamav)

Versions Affected: All before 0.91

Severity: Moderate

Issue

Clamav crashes due to processing of standard filters in RAR VM, while processing a
corrupted RAR file. Processing the corrupted file results in a null pointer deference.

Impact

Processing the corrupted file will result in crashing of clamscan application and
clamd daemon.

Fix

Upgrade to version 0.91.

PoC

http://www.metaeye.org/codes/corrupted.rar

Vendor Status

Reported: 25/06/2007
Fixed: 11/07/2007

References

1. Clamav bugzilla bug id 555.
2. Secunia advisory SA26038.
3. Bugtraq ID 24866.
4. CVE-2007-3725.



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