J-Security Center

Title: Trend Micro PC-Cillin DoS Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

PC-cillin is a network and desktop antivirus program. The Java/ActiveX protection feature routes all http requests through an internal proxy on port 8431.

Sending a malformed http request to port 8431 will cause the target site to utilize all available CPU resources. A restart of the service is required in order to gain normal functionality.

Affected Products:

  • Trend Micro PC-cillin 6.0.0

References:

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