[77846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Symantec AV may execute viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dragos Ruiu)
Thu Feb 10 15:52:52 2005
From: Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net>
To: "Paul G" <paul@rusko.us>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:46:13 -0800
In-Reply-To: <200502101201.15323.dr@kyx.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On February 10, 2005 12:01 pm, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
> 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.
P.s. To not pick on any one vendor exclusively, it's not just Symantec
that has issues... I know that an F-Secure advisory has now been
released too... and who knows, as an educated guess, I'd bet
there probably will be others coming... ;-) Allocating some IT
schedule to AV updates/verification seems prudent.
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