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RE: Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack. Jun 14 2004 10:28PM
Messer, Jon (JMesser pelco com)
Symantec AV Corporate version 8 doesnt seem to be affected. I scanned the
blackhole.zip file and SAV corp v8 blew right through all levels of the
compression and found and quarantined the EICAR test strings.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ethy H. Brito [mailto:ethy (at) inexo.com (dot) br [email concealed]]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 10:48 AM
To: bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
Subject: Re: Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack.

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:38:50 +0000
"bipin gautam" <visitbipin (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:

> Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack.
>
> --- [Vulnerable Products] ---
> Only tested on...
>
> * Norton Antivirus 2002
> * Norton Antivirus 2003
> * Mcafee VirusScan 6
> * Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan Enterprise 7.1
> * Windows Xp default ZIP manager [report's wrong size of compress ZIP
> files.]

Linux uvscan scan engine 4.3.20 (MacAfee) is also vulnerable.
uvscan takes all CPU and lots of memory been only killed with signal 9 from
another terminal.

from 'top':
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
1306 nobody 15 0 22744 21M 1648 R 97.4 35.6 0:44 0 uvscan

nobody@babalu:/usr/local/uvscan# ./uvscan -v -r --analyze --unzip
BlackHole.zip
Scanning BlackHole.zip
Scanning file BlackHole.zip
Scanning file BlackHole.zip/~.BZ2
..... stalls here .....

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