Avast Antivirus: Remote Stack Buffer Overflow with Magic Numbers

Daniel Keller

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Dec 28, 2016
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Conclusion
We have seen that highly critical memory corruption bugs can appear even in very simple functions. This is probably as simple as it gets. There is no need for complicated file parsers.

Having said that, you can expect posts about very involved bugs in anti-virus file parsers to appear on this blog.
 

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