Cisco ClamAV Anti-Malware Scanner Vulnerable to Serious Security Flaw
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Feb 24, 2023
A security flaw in a bundle anti-malware scanner product has created a serious security risk for some products from networking giant Cisco.
More particularly, a vulnerability in the ClamAV scanning library (tracked as CVE-2023-20032) created a critical security risk for Cisco’s Secure Web Appliance as well as various versions of Cisco Secure Endpoint (including Windows, MacOS, Linux, and cloud).
Cisco released an advisory on the vulnerability – alongside patches for affected products – last week. Although the vulnerability is not under active attack, patching is nonetheless recommended.
The partition scanning buffer overflow vulnerability poses a critical risk to vulnerable technologies.
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