Vulnerability in Alyac antivirus program could stop virus scanning, cause denial of service

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Cisco Talos recently discovered an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the ESTsecurity Corp.’s Alyac antivirus software that could cause a denial-of-service condition.

If successful, an attacker could trigger this vulnerability to stop the program from scanning for malware, which would be crucial in a potential attack scenario. Alyac is an antivirus software developed for Microsoft Windows machines.

 
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