F-Secure Fixes Serious Vulnerability in Antivirus Products
By Catalin Cimpanu | June 8, 2018
F-Secure has fixed a severe vulnerability in its home and enterprise antivirus products that could have allowed an attacker to execute malicious code on the user’s machine and take over affected PCs
The actual vulnerability doesn’t affect F-Secure directly, but the 7-Zip file archiving software, which F-Secure uses to decompress archives, scan them for threats, and repackage the original file.
Vulnerability really resides in 7-Zip
… as soon as the researcher found this latest 7-Zip bug, he looked for another antivirus product that could also be affected, and he noticed that F-Secure’s line of antivirus products was susceptible to his latest discovery.
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