The WabiSabiLabi vulnerability auction house is hyping the sale of a potentially nasty remote code execution flaw in ClamAV, the popular open-source anti-virus toolkit recently acquired by Sourcefire.

Why it matters: ClamAV describes itself as an open-source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats. Detection levels are pretty low compared to Windows ...

To date, Linux has experienced only a small number of viruses. Some of these viruses exist but aren't active, and they certainly don't propagate like viruses for Windows. As Linux on the desktop ...

A vulnerability in the popular open-source Clam AntiVirus scanner can be exploited by attackers to execute malicious code, a security company announced today. The ClamAV team updated the scanner to ...

COLUMBIA, Md. -- Open source innovator and SNORT® creator, Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in network intrusion prevention, today announced Certified ClamAV Support providing subscribers ...

Cisco’s ClamAV has a heap-based buffer overflow in its OLE2 file scanning. That’s a big deal, because ClamAV is used to scan file attachments on incoming emails. All it takes to trigger the ...

Version 1.4.0 of the open source virus scanner ClamAV has been released for Linux and Windows. The latest version comes with a few new functions. ClamAV can now also unpack ALZ and LHA/LZH archives ...