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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9022041
By Robert McMillan
May 30, 2007
IDG News Service
F-Secure Corp. has patched several vulnerabilities in its security
products, the most critical of which could be used to run unauthorized
software on a victim's computer.
The most critical of these bugs affects F-Secure's antivirus products. A
flaw in the way the software unpacks files that have been compressed
using the LHA archiving format, could allow an attacker to crash the
system, or even run unauthorized software on the computer, F-Secure said
in an advisory, published Wednesday.
This flaw is related to a similar flaw in the Gzip decompression utility
that was discovered last September, F-Secure said.
Security vendor Secunia ApS rates the bug as highly critical. The flaw
affects F-Secure's Anti-Virus, Internet Gatekeeper and Internet Security
product suites.
A second less-critical vulnerability in some of the company's antivirus
software was also patched Wednesday. This flaw could be used by an
attacker with access to the local system to get into unauthorized parts
of the system in what is called a privilege escalation attack.
Users of some versions of F-Secure Anti-Virus and Internet Security have
been automatically delivered the software patches for these flaws,
F-Secure said. A list of which products require hotfixes can be found
within F-Secure's security bulletins.
Also on Wednesday, F-Secure fixed a flaw in its Policy Manager Server
that could be used by attackers to launch a denial of service attack
against the security management software. Secunia rates this bug as
"less critical."
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