Discovered: December 20, 2005
Updated: February 13, 2007 12:50:13 PM
Type: Trojan Horse, Worm
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Bloodhound.Exploit.55 is a heuristic detection for the Symantec Decomposer Malformed RAR archive issue. An attacker who exploits this vulnerability could perform a denial-of-service
attack
or potentially execute code remotely with system privileges.
Note: On December 20, two separate sets of LiveUpdate definitions were released. The Bloodhound.Exploit.55 detection was included in the second LiveUpdate release - version 71220w (extended version 12/20/2005 rev.23), sequence number 50604.
The Bloodhound.Exploit.55 detection was updated as of the December 30th, 2005 LiveUpdate definitions.
Protection
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Initial Rapid Release version December 20, 2005
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Latest Rapid Release version December 20, 2005
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Initial Daily Certified version October 31, 2007 revision 003
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Latest Daily Certified version June 17, 2008 revision 017
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Initial Weekly Certified release date December 20, 2005
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