Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5520

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-12 18:13:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:56:46
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

AhnLab V3 2008.12.4.1 and possibly 2008.9.13.0, 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.