Vulnerability in Symantec Antivirus_scan_engine

CVE-2005-0249

Heap-based buffer overflow in the DEC2EXE module for Symantec AntiVirus Library allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a UPX compressed file containing a negative virtual offset to a crafted PE header.

EPSS: 0.188 (96.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_ISS, Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
  • cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)