Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5524

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-12 18:13:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:56:47
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

CAT-QuickHeal 10.00 and possibly 9.50, 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.