CVE-2005-3379 Information

Description

Multiple interpretation error in Trend Micro (1) PC-Cillin 2005 12.0.1244 with the 7.510.1002 engine and (2) OfficeScan 7.0 with the 7.510.1002 engine allows remote attackers to bypass virus scanning via a file such as BAT HTML and EML with an \MZ\ magic byte sequence which is normally associated with EXE which causes the file to be treated as a safe type that could still be executed as a dangerous file type by applications on the end system as demonstrated by a \triple headed\ program that contains EXE EML and HTML content aka the \magic byte bug.\

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113026417802703&w=2 http://www.securityelf.org/magicbyte.html http://www.securityelf.org/magicbyteadv.html http://www.securityelf.org/updmagic.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415173 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15189