CVE-2007-2973 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Avira Antivir Antivirus before 7.03.00.09 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a malformed TAR archive.

Published: 2007-06-01

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: 3.6% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:avira:antivir::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:avira:av_pack::::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2007-2965	Avira Antivir Antivirus before 7.03.00.09 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a malformed TAR archive.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03629.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://forum.antivir-pe.de/thread.php?threadid=22528
http://osvdb.org/36711
http://secunia.com/advisories/25417
http://www.nruns.com/advisories/%5Bn.runs-SA-2007.012%5D%20-%20Avira%20Antivir%20Antivirus%20TAR%20parsing%20Infinite%20Loop%20Advisory.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470042/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24187
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24239
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018137
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1971
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34557

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Avira Antivir Av Pack

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-06-01T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T13:57:54.494Z

Reserved: 2007-05-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-2973

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-06-01T01:30:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-2973

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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