Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus Fails to Scan Files With Certain Characters in Path Names
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1009333 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1009333
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CVE Reference:
GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Mar 5 2004
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Impact:
Denial of service via local system
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Exploit Included: Yes
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Version(s): 2002; version 8.00.58; possibly others
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus. A local user or a virus may create a file or directory that cannot be scanned by the anti-virus engine.
Bipin Gautam ( hUNT3R ) reported that the software will crash when performing a manual scan of a file or folder with a name containing certain ASCII characters. The report indicates that ASCII characters 1 - 31 can be used in a folder or filename to trigger the flaw. For example, a folder named '!' can be used. When Norton Anti-Virus attempts to scan the folder manually, 'NAVW32.exe' will crash, the report said.
The Auto-Protect feature is not affected, the report said.
A demonstration exploit is available at:
http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/test_nav.zip
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Impact:
A local user (or virus code) can create a file with a particular type of file path name that will not be scanned manually by the anti-virus scanning engine.
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Solution:
No solution was available at the time of this entry.
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Vendor URL: www.symantec.com/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
State error
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Underlying OS:
Windows (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: 5 Mar 2004 18:35:33 -0000
Subject: Norton Antivirus 2002 fails to scan files with special
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Subject: Norton Antivirus 2002 fails to scan files with special character(s) properly.
Published: Friday, 05 March, 2004
Discovered By: Bipin Gautam ( hUNT3R )
Product Version: Norton Antivirus 2002 [ ver: 8.00.58 ] (~Only tested On...~)
Risk Impact: Low-Medium
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Details:
During a 'manual scan' of a folder, if Norton Antivirus (NAV) encounters a file /folder name with 'some' ASCII characters ( 1-31)
NAV can't further proceed the manual scan and its front-end 'NAVW32.exe' crashes! This Bug has no impact in the NAV Auto-Protect
Engine.
Exploit: http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/test_nav.zip
Create a folder (say: '!' ) and put some sub-folders and files in it. The file/sub-folder name must contain ASCII character(s) (
1-31) . Have a manual scan of the folder named '!' NAV can't proceed the scan and crashes!
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