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Panda Antivirus Buffer Overflow

Alex Wheeler has reported a vulnerability in Panda Antivirus, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in “pskcmp.dll” when performing Lempel-Ziv decompression of ZOO archives. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution when a malicious ZOO archive is scanned.

[Continue reading Secunia Advisory SA17765]

[tags]arbitrary code execution,buffer overflow,panda,antivirus,system compromise,zoo,archive,decompression[/tags]

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