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Information Technology News Finisterre finds Mac Virex vulnerability
Information Technology News Finisterre finds Mac Virex vulnerability | Finisterre finds Mac Virex vulnerability |
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| Written by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 01 March 2007 | |
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This situation can be exploited to escalate the privileges of arbitrary files. McAfee had already released a patch and an updated version of the software well before the public disclosure was made. While the patch only applies to version 7.7, the company warned that earlier versions might also be vulnerable and urged all customers to update to the latest build. VirusScan for MacTel 8.0 and VirusScan for Mac 8.5 do not contain the flaw according to McAfee. This is not the first time that security software has been the source of a vulnerability. For example, Symantec had to update its corporate anti-virus product last year following the discovery of a stack overflow vulnerability.{moscomment}
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