CVE-2021-33602

Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability

Published Oct 6, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
A vulnerability affecting the F-Secure Antivirus engine was discovered when the engine tries to unpack a zip archive (LZW decompression method), and this can crash the scanning engine. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely by an attacker. A successful attack will result in Denial-of-Service of the Anti-Virus engine.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

FIX No User action is required. The required fix has been published through the automatic update channel with Capricorn update 2021-09-29_03

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-20286 A vulnerability affecting the F-Secure Antivirus engine was discovered when the engine tries to unpack a zip archive (LZW decompression method), and this can crash the scanning engine. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely by an attacker. A successful attack will result in Denial-of-Service of the Anti-Virus engine.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
F-SecureUS
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 11:50 PM
Reserved
May 27, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 6, 2021, 10:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:54 AM