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F-Secure patches antivirus software
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Proof that even the mighty Linux, can fall victim to security threats. F-Secure had their hands full recently it would seem…
Antivirus software vendor F-Secure (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. issued a patch for a wide range of its products Thursday after a security researcher in Luxembourg reported vulnerabilities to the company.
A flaw in the way F-Secure software handled ZIP and RAR format data compression archives could allow an attacker to execute remote code on users’ systems and to bypass F-Secure’s antivirus-scanning capabilities, according to Thierry Zoller, the security engineer and penetration tester who reported the vulnerability to F-Secure. F-Secure called the vulnerability “critical.” [Read the rest]