Symantec AV may execute viruses

Thu Feb 10 20:01:15 UTC 2005

On February 10, 2005 10:29 am, Paul G wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Wheeler" <jwheeler at usip.org>
> To: "Colin Johnston" <colinj at mx5.org.uk>
> Cc: <nanog at 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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