Examining the Recent ClamAV Security Flaw

ClamAV , the open source anti-virus software that’s valuable to so many, recently fixed a vulnerability that might allow an attacker to get their code running in a privileged context. Typically, an anti-virus engine doesn’t usually need to understand the files it checks, it just compares the bytes against its list of known malware signatures.

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