Re: Norton AntiVirus Denial Of Service Vulnerability [Part: !!!]

[Bipin Gautam <visitbipin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>The same thing happens with classic mail bombs like 42.zip, NAV can't 
>handle them.
>
>Alan Parks

42.zip was a arc. BOMB and a different story... It's similar to my WinRar 
advisory that date back, 2003.

Well, within few seconds... after the AV scan have started norton quickly 
scan's the infected file and skips the empty folder within the zip archive! But 
after norton detects virus in the archive it tries to delete the virus within 
the archive, and re-create the un-infected/fresh archive........ again!
The problem triggers when NAV tries to re-create all the empty folders and 
re-construct the archive. *ANY* av scanners that autometically tries to delete 
the infected file and re-create the archive should be vulnerable to this 
exploit!!!

Note: in the "AutoProtect Menu" in the option tab in Norton AV the 
option........

*autometically repair the infected file <--- is set by default!
you could temporarily be immune by this bug by setting the option,
*deny access to the infected file. 

The compressed archive mustn't necessarily be a zip archive to trigger this 
attack. You could experiment this with other archive types......

bipin