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

Vulnerability Note VU#415734

Original Release Date: 2004-03-18 | Last Revised: 2004-03-18

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.

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.

Impact

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

Solution

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

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Acknowledgements

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

CVE IDs: None
Severity Metric: 14.43
Date Public: 2004-03-10
Date First Published: 2004-03-18
Date Last Updated: 2004-03-18 18:20 UTC
Document Revision: 4

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