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McAfee Coverage of the DirectShow Exploit – McAfee Avert Labs Blog
McAfee Coverage of the DirectShow Exploit
Tuesday July 7, 2009 at 12:47 am CST
Posted by Geok Meng Ong
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Since we reported about the new attacks against Internet Explorer exploiting a vulnerability in a DirectShow ActiveX object, we have released DATs/coverage updates for many of our products and technologies.
Current status for each of the content areas:
- Malware - Coverage is provided for exploit code in the 5668 DATs, released on July 6.
- HIPS - Generic buffer overflow should provide coverage.
- McAfee Network Security Platform - Coverage is provided on July 6.
- McAfee Vulnerability Manager - Coverage is provided on July 6.
- MNAC - Coverage will be provided in the next release.
- VirusScan Enterprise BOP - Should provide coverage for the buffer overflow.
- McAfee Web Gateway, Anti-Malware Edition- Behavior analysis provides coverage against currently known exploits.
Other Internet users and website administrators can also download the free Stinger tool to scan computers and web pages for known malware relating to this attack:
We will continue to monitor the situation to provide the most comprehensive coverage we can.
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