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Re: Symantec AV may execute viruses
- From: Dragos Ruiu
- Date: Thu Feb 10 15:08:38 2005
On February 10, 2005 10:29 am, Paul G wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Wheeler" <jwheeler@usip.org>
> To: "Colin Johnston" <colinj@mx5.org.uk>
> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Symantec AV may execute viruses
>
> > Also, it doesn't appear that this issue effects the Mac software (at
> > least, I didn't see the Mac products in the Symantec vulnerability
> > list), only Windows products.
>
> if this is a heap overflow and if osx uses a bsd-derived libc (with phy
> malloc implementation), the vulnerability would not be exploitable. this
> seems like a probable explanation.
Neil Mehta & Alex Wheeler from ISS who identified this and a number
of other AV issues will be doing a presentation on it entitled, "Owning
Antii-Virus" at CanSecWest.
cheers,
--dr
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