While scanning compressed files, several Antivirus, Trojan and Spyware scanners might suffer from a denial of service condition while attempting to extract an archive that contains intentionally malformed content in it.

Vulnerable Systems:
* Norton Antivirus 2002
* Norton Antivirus 2003
* Mcafee VirusScan 6
* Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan Enterprise 7.1
* Windows Xp default ZIP manager (report's wrong size of compress ZIP files.)
* F-Prot 4.4.2 for Linux
* Panda Antivirus
* Linux uvscan scan engine 4.3.20 (McAfee)

shaquil writes "Hi Guys
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Computer Glitch Rejects Some IRS Returns
By Mary Dalrymple
The Associated Press
Thursday, January 22, 2004

Thousands of electronically filed tax returns were initially rejected in the past few days because of a computer glitch.

Software glitch brings Y2K deja vu
By David Becker
CNET News.com
December 22, 2003, 10:17 AM PT

Software running on thousands of computers worldwide will become inoperable in a few weeks because of an obscure date-related glitch, and developers are rushing to create and apply patches.

Sound familiar?

Hospital lab software recalled

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Arizona company is recalling a version of computer software used by hospital and other health laboratories because of a glitch that could cause serious errors in patient care.
It's called the B-AUT-RAPID-LAB software version 5.2, 5.23 and 5.3, made by Misys Healthcare Systems of Tucson

August 6, 2003

McAfee Antivirus Tool Blocks Internet Access
By Dennis Fisher

Some Network Associates Inc. customers are up in arms over an update for one of the company's antivirus products that is preventing them from accessing the Internet.
The problem is caused by an update for McAfee VirusScan Professional 7.0, the company's flagship enterprise antivirus application. When update 7.03 is installed on some machines running Windows 2000 or Windows XP, it prevents the PCs from connecting to the Internet after the suggested reboot. The problem seems to be affecting customers who upgraded from 7.02 to 7.03.

McAfee has pulled the update from its download servers and is performing quality checks on it, according to information on the company's Web site, but has not provided customers with any instructions on how to fix affected machines.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn return to the same box.
Italian proverb.

- Several vulnerabilities in Half-Life -
Oxygen3 24h-365d, by Panda Software (http://www.pandasoftware.com)

Madrid, August 4, 2003 - Security Corporation has reported several security
bugs that affect both the server to which players of 1.1.1.0 and previous
versions of the game connect, as well as clients themselves. MODs(*) based
on the game, such as Counter-Strike, are also affected.

These vulnerabilities, which could be exploited remotely, stem from a buffer
overflow which could lead to a denial of service. In some cases this will
prevent users connected to Half-Life from playing the game, and in other
cases it will allow an attacker to run code of their choice both on the
servers and the clients.

Half-Life has become, in the last few years, one of the most popular games
among fans of multi-player applications. The flaws detected in this game
pose a threat not only to corporate environments, but also to home users and
networks such as those found in cyber-cafés.

Anonymous writes "Screensaver crashing gains desktop

A REPORT on a board claimed there's a way to circumvent security on the machines running the latest version of Mac OSX, by crashing a locked screensaver and recovering the desktop.
According to the filing, if you leave a key pressed for five minutes or more and then press the Return key, that crashes the screensaver and gives you access to the desktop.

The person who filed the report claimed that he's notified Apple of the hole but hasn't had a reply from the firm.

You can find the filing here.

Source: HackFire"

A new virus called Nick has begun infecting the registries of computers with login settings established as Administrator and passwords set as Password. Once inside, the virus establishes a File Transfer Protocol site for spam relay and storage.

Eudora, developed and distributed by Qualcomm, is a Mail User Agent running on Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT 4.0 and MacOS 8.1 or later. A remote user can create a DoS attack by sending a file with an exceptionally long name. This does not cause an exploitable buffer overflow but crashes the program. In addition, the mailbox will be corrupted and cause the program to crash every time.