Archive Formats Kill Antivirus Products 2
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nemiloc
nemiloc writes "From F-Secure website:
"The Secure Programming Group at Oulu University has created a collection of malformed archive files. These archive files break and crash products from at least 40 vendors — including several antivirus vendors...including us."
It is not new anymore that security producs have have security problems... What makes this special is that antivirus software is a perfect target. They are run on critical places with high privileges and autoupdates keeps versions coherent.
More information:
Test material by OUSPG and
Joint advisory by CERT-FI and CPNI"
