Avast Antivirus: Remote Stack Buffer Overflow with Magic Numbers

[Daniel Keller]

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.

 

[Daniel Keller]

Bug has been fixed already. It was just now published....