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." _____________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA, July 28-August 2 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. Featuring 30 hands-on training courses and 90 Briefings presentations with lots of new content and new tools. Network with 4,000 delegates from 70 nations. Visit product displays by 30 top sponsors in a relaxed setting. Rates increase on June 1 so register today. http://www.blackhat.com
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