CVE-2021-33597

Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability

More information

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F-Secure Atlant whereby the SAVAPI component used in certain F-Secure products can crash while scanning fuzzed files. The exploit can be triggered remotely by an attacker. A successful attack will result in denial-of-service (DoS) of the antivirus engine.

This issue was reported to F-Secure through the Vulnerability Reward Program. No known exploit or attack has been seen in the wild.

Contributors

F-Secure Corporation would like to thank Antti Levomäki and Christian Jalio from Forcepoint for bringing this issue to our attention. 

Antti Levomäki

Forcepoint

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Christian Jalio

Forcepoint

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    Description

  • Crash while scanning fuzzed files can cause denial-of-service (DoS) of the antivirus engine.
  • Status

  • Resolved
  • Risk level

  • Low
  • Fix

  • No user action is required. The required fix has been published through automatic update channel with Capricorn update 2021-07-26_07.
  • Affected products

  • Corporate Products: All F-Secure endpoint protection products on Windows and Mac All F-Secure endpoint protection products on Linux F-Secure Security Cloud
  • Platforms

  • All supported platforms for the affected products
  • Date issues

  • 9/8/2021
  • Security advisories
  • 2021
  • Low