Mac Mini Netgear readynas Time Machine threat found

[apgeek]

I have just setup my Mac Mini toy use a Netgear Readynas for time machine and the ready nas has antivirus built into the device. It is reporting this
Subject: ReadyNAS Alert Message (nas-1 System: Warning)

Antivirus scanner found threat (Exploit:CVE-2004-0200_2) in the file '/data/.timemachine/anthony’s Mac mini.sparsebundle/bands/aaa'. Please refer to the documentation for threat types.

Does this mean I have a threat on the Mac Mini or the nas is wrong?

 

[Giuly]

It means that you shouldn't use Windows Anti-Virus software on Mac files.

Buffer overflow in the JPEG (JPG) parsing engine in the Microsoft Graphic Device Interface Plus (GDI+) component, GDIPlus.dll, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JPEG image with a small JPEG COM field length that is normalized to a large integer length before a memory copy operation.

Vulnerable systems:
Windows 2003 Server R2
Windows XP 64-bit
Windows XP
Windows XP SP1

 

[schalliol]

I just found the same thing on my wife's MacBook Air via my ReadyNAS time machine backup. It appears that as usual, Macs are unaffected by this, but it's a JPEF vulnerability, so it sounds pretty stealth. We're you able to find the file that was the problem, and if so, how?

I think it's better to know there is a potential Windows threat so we aren't sending the problem to others.

Thanks!