Symantec hit by vulnerabilities

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Sep 15, 2006

Two flaws in alert handling unveiled.

Two separate vulnerabilites in the alert notification handling systems of Symantec products have been reported this week. Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition are affected by the problems.

The problems are both format string errors, the first allowing code execution with escalated privileges and the second granting the power to crash the on-access scanning functionality of the software.

One of the bugs was reported by Layered Defense Research, here. The other is described in detail in this alert from Symantec. Both have been patched by the vendors, and users are advised to update their software.

Posted on 15 September 2006 by Virus Bulletin

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