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2009-05-01

Helen Martin

Virus Bulletin, UK

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Six AV companies suffer archive processing vulnerabilities.

Anti-malware products suffered a plague of archive processing vulnerabilities last month, with products from six companies found to be affected. Products from Avira, Aladdin, Comodo, ESET, Trend Micro and McAfee all experienced problems processing archives (which could have led to the scanners failing to detect malicious files contained within an archive). According to The H Security, both Avira and ESET have released an update which has resolved the problem for CAB files; Comodo has released an update to fix the bug when processing RAR archives; and McAfee has released a fix for the problem with RAR and ZIP archives. Updates are expected soon from Aladdin and Trend Micro.

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