Kaspersky Lab to study WikiLeaks report on antivirus soft flaws

MOSCOW, Mar 9 (PRIME) -- Russian antivirus software producer Kaspersky Lab will study a WikiLeaks report about existing vulnerabilities in its software products, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday.

“Kaspersky Lab is closely studying the report released on the WikiLeaks resource on March 7, 2017 to make sure that our clients are safe. The company pays the most serious attention to similar reports,” the spokesperson said.

“The DLL inject and heapgrd vulnerabilities mentioned in the report have been known for a long time, and they were closed in products by Kaspersky Lab in 2009. Moreover, all the company’s new products are subject to a compulsory testing for these flaws prior to being released.

“The products listed by WikiLeaks (KIS 7, KIS 8, WKSTNMP3) are obsolete versions of Kaspersky Lab’s protection software, and no technical support has been rendered on them for several years already.”

As to the DLL inject vulnerability in the TDSSKiller utility, also mentioned in the report, was closed in December 2015, the antivirus producer said.

Kaspersky Lab said that the disclosed documents do not prove that the listed flaws had been used in practice against the company’s products or other makers of protection software, but describe software by the reverse engineering method.

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