Friday, March 18, 2005

Another antivirus software flaw

For the fifth time in two months, security researchers have publicized a serious flaw in a virus-scanning program. The vulnerability affects McAfee’s Antivirus Library, a collection of common code shared among the security software company’s various virus scanners, including GroupShield for mail servers and VirusScan for PCs. An attacker could use the flaw to cause a vulnerable system to run a file instead of scanning it for malicious code.

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