Kaspersky fixes serious vulnerability in Online Scanner
Exploitable ActiveX control replaced in new version.
Kaspersky Lab has released an updated version of its popular free online scanner to remedy a vulnerability
in an ActiveX control used by the scanning system.
The format string flaw, in the 'kavwebscan' ActiveX control, could be exploited by a malicious web page to cause
a buffer overflow and run malicious code on vulnerable systems. The problem was first reported by a researcher,
via iDefense, in late June, and is now being made public following the release of an update to the scanner
to fix the flaw.
Users of the scanner are strongly urged to install the updated version, available from Kaspersky
here. More details of the vulnerability are
at Kaspersky here, at iDefense
here and at Secunia, who
labelled the issue 'highly critical', here.
15 October 2007
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