[pchelpers] News:Symantec's antivirus software vulnerable to worms - security firm

Wolfgang Gruener

May 26, 2006 16:15

Update: 3:32 PM EST

Aliso Viejo (CA) - Symantec today confirmed a vulnerability in its 
Antivirus Corporate Edition 10.x software, which - a security firm 
claims - can provide malicious users with far-reaching remote 
system-level access to computers.

The vulnerability, first reported by Eeye Digital Security on Thursday, 
is described as "a remotely exploitable vulnerability [that] exists 
within the Symantec Antivirus program." According to the company, the 
flaw affects the Symantec products Antivirus 10.x and Symantec Client 
Security 3.x and "does not require any end user interaction for 
exploitation and can compromise affected systems, allowing for the 
execution of malicious code with system level access."

More here:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/05/26/antivirus_10_vulnerability/
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