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January 20th, 2004, 11:58 PM
Link to story: http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=127679
{QUOTE-> Flaw found in anti-virus software
by Antony Savvas
Tuesday 20 January 2004
Products from three popular anti-virus software companies have been found to contain a programming flaw that allows a hacker to crash a user's desktop PC.
Products from Network Associates, Trend Micro and Kaspersky Lab are affected, according to an advisory from German security company AERAsec.
Anti-virus software provides a built-in decompression engine to scan for viruses in compressed files. AERAsec has reported that the decompression engines from the three affected suppliers do not appear to cope with very large bzip2 compressed files.
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{QUOTE-> Flaw found in anti-virus software
by Antony Savvas
Tuesday 20 January 2004
Products from three popular anti-virus software companies have been found to contain a programming flaw that allows a hacker to crash a user's desktop PC.
Products from Network Associates, Trend Micro and Kaspersky Lab are affected, according to an advisory from German security company AERAsec.
Anti-virus software provides a built-in decompression engine to scan for viruses in compressed files. AERAsec has reported that the decompression engines from the three affected suppliers do not appear to cope with very large bzip2 compressed files.
This can lead to...
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.
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