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Vulnerabilities in scanning of specially crafted archives and certain packed executables (May 30, 2007)

Specially crafted archives and packed executables set antivirus scanning to loop.

Specially crafted archives and packed executables allow attacker to create denial-of-service condition in F-Secure antivirus solutions, by causing a loop in file scanning.

For more information, please see F-Secure Security Bulletin FSC-2007-3.

These issues have been fixed automatically in F-Secure database updates. This applies all the affected product versions with the exception of deployments not using automatic or automated scripts for the updates.