Email Anti-virus (formerly WebShield SMTP) vulnerable to denial-of-service

Overview Email Anti-virus formerly WebShield SMTP provided by McAfee Co., Ltd. contains a denial-of-service DoS vulnerability. Email Anti-virus formerly WebShield SMTP provided by McAfee Co., Ltd. is an anti-virus package that scans emails. Email Anti-virus formerly WebShield SMTP contains a...

JVN#50701493: Email Anti-virus (formerly WebShield SMTP) vulnerable to denial-of-service

Email Anti-virus formerly WebShield SMTP provided by McAfee Co., Ltd. is an anti-virus package that scans emails. Email Anti-virus formerly WebShield SMTP contains a denial-of-service DoS vulnerability. Impact An attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service DoS. Solution Do not use Email...

Gauss Malware Detection Tool released by Iranian CERT

Iranian National Computer Emergency Response Team releases a tool for Gauss malware detection. Cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on banking transactions and steal login and passwords, according Kaspersky Lab, a leading computer security firm. Gauss primarily...

Malware Attack on 2nd Largest Liquefied Natural Gas Producer

Reports have surfaced that liquified natural gas LNG producer RasGas, based in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, has been struck by an unidentified virus, this time shutting down its website and email servers. The malware, however, did not affect the company's operational computers that control t...

Computer Virus Blacks Out Qatari Gas Producer

An “unknown virus” has shutdown the entire computer network of the world’s second largest liquefied natural gas LNG producer, RasGas, according to news reports. RasGas is based in Qatar, a peninsular nation located within the larger Arabian Peninsula. The LNG producer has reportedly been offline...

Fedora Update for clamav FEDORA-2012-9563

Check for the Version of clamav OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for clamav FEDORA-2012-9563 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

Saudi Aramco Oil Producer's 30,000 workstations victim of Cyber Attack

Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. Immediately after the Aug. 15 attack, the company announced it had cut off its electronic systems from outside access to...

Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in SquidClamav 5.x before 5.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 url, 2 virus, 3 source, or 4 user parameter to a clwarn.cgi, b clwarn.cgi.deDE, c clwarn.cgi.enEN, d clwarn.cgi.frFR, e clwarn.cgi.ptBR, or f...

Frankenstein Malware turning legitimate software into invisible malware

Many malware and viruses can be identified by detection software because of known bits of malicious code. But what if there was a virus compiled from little bits of programs you already had installed? That's just what two security researchers are looking into. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheu...

Some Signs Point to Shamoon as Malware in Aramco Attack

While researchers continue to dig into the Shamoon malware, looking for its origins and a complete understanding of its capabilities, a group calling itself the Cutting Sword of Justice is claiming responsibility for an attack on the massive Saudi oil company Aramco, which some experts believe...

CVE-2010-3498

AVG Anti-Virus does not properly interact with the processing of hcp:// URLs by the Microsoft Help and Support Center, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malware that is correctly detected by this product, but with a detection approach that occurs too late to...

CVE-2010-3499

F-Secure Anti-Virus does not properly interact with the processing of hcp:// URLs by the Microsoft Help and Support Center, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malware that is correctly detected by this product, but with a detection approach that occurs too la...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

The web interface in McAfee Firewall Reporter before 5.1.0.13 does not properly implement cookie authentication, which allows remote attackers to obtain access, and disable anti-virus functionality, via an HTTP request...

Remote code execution

AVG Anti-Virus does not properly interact with the processing of hcp:// URLs by the Microsoft Help and Support Center, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malware that is correctly detected by this product, but with a detection approach that occurs too late to...

Code injection

F-Secure Anti-Virus does not properly interact with the processing of hcp:// URLs by the Microsoft Help and Support Center, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malware that is correctly detected by this product, but with a detection approach that occurs too la...

CVE-2011-5100

CVE-2011-5100 affects the McAfee Firewall Reporter web interface (pre-5.1.0.13). The root cause is improper cookie authentication, allowing remote attackers to obtain access and disable anti-virus functionality via an HTTP request. The vulnerability is reflected in NVD as CVSSv2 base score 7.5 (H...

CVE-2010-3499

CVE-2010-3499 concerns F‑Secure Anti‑Virus and its interaction with the processing of hcp:// URLs in the Microsoft Help and Support Center. The vulnerability description states that, although malware may be detected by the product, the detection approach can occur too late to stop code execution,...

CVE-2011-5100

The web interface in McAfee Firewall Reporter before 5.1.0.13 does not properly implement cookie authentication, which allows remote attackers to obtain access, and disable anti-virus functionality, via an HTTP request...

CVE-2010-3498

AVG Anti-Virus does not properly interact with the processing of hcp:// URLs by the Microsoft Help and Support Center, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malware that is correctly detected by this product, but with a detection approach that occurs too late to...

CVE-2010-3498

CVE-2010-3498 affects AVG Anti-Virus in the way it handles hcp:// URLs invoked by the Microsoft Help and Support Center. The root cause is improper interaction with the hcp:// protocol processing, enabling a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code when a malware payload is correctly detected bu...