Antivirus apps are there to protect you – Cisco's ClamAV has a heckuva flaw
Antivirus software is supposed to be an important part of an organization's defense against the endless tide of malware.
Cisco's open source ClamAV can fill that role – once you patch the 9.8/10 rated arbitrary code execution flaw the networking giant revealed on Wednesday. "A vulnerability in the HFS+ partition file parser of ClamAV versions 1.0.0 and earlier, 0.105.1 and earlier, and 0.103.7 and earlier could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code," states Cisco's"This vulnerability is due to a missing buffer size check that may result in a heap buffer overflow write," the document elaborates.
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