[Full-Disclosure] Antivirus/Trojan/Spyware scanners DoS!

[bipin gautam]

--- Chad_Loder at rapid7.com wrote:
> There is a history of years and years of antivirus
> products
> choking on funky compressed files.
> 
> We had reports of quite a few AV products crapping
> out on
> the invalid zip files included with our zip advisory
> from 2002:
> 
>        
> http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0004/R7-0004.tgz
> 
>        
> http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0004/index.html
> 
> I doubt they've all been fixed.  Feel free to try
> out your favorite
> product on those files (there is a valid gzipped
> tarball with
> semivalid zip files containing the antivirus test
file).

Ok, i got your point but... i am here talking about,
the problems [DoS] that AV scanners face while
scanning BIG [size] compressed files, not... ling file
names. But I am sure, NAV 2002 should had problems
scanning
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0004/R7-0004.tgz
back in 2002

regards,

bipin



	
		
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