Symantec vulnerability discovered - and fixed
Buffer overflow vulnerability found in corporate AV software.
Symantec was quick to respond late last month to the discovery of a
potentially critical vulnerability in the latest versions of its corporate
anti-virus software.
The stack overflow vulnerability, which was discovered by researchers at
eEye Digital Security in Symantec Client Security 3.x and Symantec
AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.x, would potentially allow remote attackers
to execute code on the affected machine - without any user interaction.
Symantec responded to the discovery by releasing a series of intrusion
prevention signatures for the affected versions of the software. The
company was also quick to point out that it was not aware of any customers
affected by the vulnerability, or of any exploits of the vulnerability.
01 June 2006
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