Vulnerability Note VU#415734

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux fails to properly detect Sober.D virus

Overview

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux contains a flaw that may prevent it from properly detecting the Sober.D virus. A hotfix for this vulnerability has been released.

I. Description

F-Secure Anti-Virus version 4.52 for Linux contains a flaw that may prevent it from properly detecting the Sober.D virus. Servers, Gateways and workstations running this software may not be filtering out the Sober.D virus. A hotfix for this vulnerability has been released.

II. Impact

Users may become infected with the Sober.D virus despite having their antivirus definitions up to date.

III. Solution

F-Secure has released Hotfix 3 to resolve this issue.

Systems Affected

No Information Available

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/11089/
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/corporate/downloads/hotfixes/av-linux-hotfixes.shtml
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/hotfix/fsav/fsav-4.52-hotfix3.tgz

Credit

Thanks to Secunia Security Advisories for reporting this vulnerability. This vulnerability was discovered by F-Secure.

This document was written by Jason A Rafail.

Other Information

Date Public:	2004-03-10
Date First Published:	2004-03-18
Date Last Updated:	2004-03-18
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):
NVD-ID(s):
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	14.43
Document Revision:	2

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