BitDefender AV Packed PE File Parsing Engine Heap Overflow
20 Dec. 2006
Summary
BitDefenderT provides security solutions to satisfy the protection requirements of today's computing environment, delivering effective threat management to over 41 million home and corporate users in more than 200 countries.
BitDefender has garnered many awards, accolades and certifications since its inception in 2001. From the prestigious European IST Prize, to the #1 Best Buy ranking from PC World, and most recently, the PC World "Best 100 Products of 2006," the Company is enjoying worldwide recognition for its superior technology and product offering.
A remotely exploitable vulnerability has been found in the Packet PE file parsing engine.
A heap overflow through integer overflow in Packed PE file parsing exists in BitDefender, this problem can lead to remote arbitrary code execution if an attacker carefully crafts a file that exploits the aforementioned vulnerability.
Solution:
The vulnerabilities were reported on August 28 and an update has been issued on August 29 to solve this vulnerability. The update has been delivered immediately to all BitDefender users through the regular automatic update mechanism, so no user action is required.
Vendor communication:
2006/08/24 - initial notification of BitDefender
2006/08/25 - BitDefender Response
2006/08/26 - PGP keys exchange
2006/08/28 - PoC files sent to BitDefender
2006/08/29 - BitDefender confirmed the bug and fixed it.
2006/08/30 - BitDefender released fixes through automatic update.
