CVE-2021-33599

Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability

More information

A vulnerability affecting F-Secure antivirus engine was discovered whereby scanning WIM archive file can lead to denial-of-service (infinite loop and freezes AV engine scanner). The vulnerability can be exploited remotely by an attacker. A successful attack will result in denial-of-service of the antivirus engine.

This issue was reported to F-Secure through the Vulnerability Reward Program. No known exploit or attack has been seen in the wild.

Contributors

F-Secure Corporation would like to thank following person for bringing this issue to our attention.

faty420

    Description

  • Denial-of-service of the antivirus engine (infinite loop and system hang) when scanning WIM archive.

    • Status

  • Fixed

    • Risk level

  • Medium

    • Fix

  • No user action is required. The required fix has been published through automatic update channel with Capricorn update 2021-08-25_04.

    • Affected products

  • Corporate Products: All F-Secure endpoint protection products on Windows and Mac F-Secure Linux Security (32-bit) F-Secure Linux Security 64 F-Secure Atlant F-Secure Cloud Protection for Salesforce

    • Platforms

  • All supported platforms for the affected products

    • Date issued

  • 3/9/2021
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  • Security advisories
  • 2021
  • Medium