CVE-2008-5539

published 2008-12-12

CVE-2008-5539: RISING Antivirus 21.06.31.00 and possibly 20.61.42.00, when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 is used, allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an HTML…

Priority P3 41 critical 9.3 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC M Au N C C I C A C

RISING Antivirus 21.06.31.00 and possibly 20.61.42.00, when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 is used, allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an HTML document by placing an MZ header (aka "EXE info") at the beginning, and modifying the filename to have (1) no extension, (2) a .txt extension, or (3) a .jpg extension, as demonstrated by a document containing a CVE-2006-5745 exploit.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
rising-global	rising_antivirus	—	—
rising-global	rising_antivirus	—	—

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