F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities

F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities F-Prot Antivirus contains a buffer overflow and other unspecified vulnerabilities, possibly allowing the remote execution of arbitrary code. f-prot 2006-12-12 2006-12-12 157612 remote 4.6.7 4.6.7

F-Prot Antivirus is a FRISK Software antivirus program that can used with procmail.

F-Prot Antivirus version 4.6.7 fixes a heap-based buffer overflow, an infinite loop, and other unspecified vulnerabilities.

Among other weaker impacts, a remote attacker could send an e-mail containing a malicious file that would trigger the buffer overflow vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running F-Prot, which may be the root user.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All F-Prot users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/f-prot-4.6.7"

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