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F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux Virus Detection Vulnerability

Mar 10, 2004 12:54AM PST

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux 4.x

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux,
potentially allowing malware to bypass the virus detection.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error, which
reportedly causes a problem with detecting the Sober.D virus.

No more information is available.

SOLUTION:
Apply FSAV Linux 4.52 Hotfix 3:
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/hotfix/fsav/fsav-4.52-hotfix3.tgz

http://secunia.com/advisories/11089/

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