Multiple Symantec Product Vuln

[Timmy77]

As if the Microsoft patches weren't enough, there's an issue with many Symantec products and their UPX parsing engine.

http://secunia.com/advisories/14179/

This one's fun because:

It affects a security product (your antivirus / antispam software) and;

it requires a re-install of the new version, rather than a patch to fix it.

Good patching, everyone!

[thehorse13]

Looks like no sleep for me over the next 3 days.

Thanks!

TH13

[oofki]

Do you think it includes corprate products?

[XTC46]

dammit...this just sucks. oh well time to start updating, its cool though, only about 90 percent of our clietns use symantec...*slams head into desk*

[oofki]

Haha xtc, well I guess thats a plus side of selling mcafee 2005 at my place, even though I hate Mcafee.

Edit- I take that back, I like stinger and mcafee for dos becuase they are simple and free.

[phishphreek]

Originally posted here by oofki
Do you think it includes corprate products?

Yep. If you were to RTFA, in the beginning under software you would have seen

Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.x
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.x

Normally advisories contain such information. May want to look there before asking.

[DjM]

The following is the official Symantec advisory:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/sec...005.02.08.html

I have been in contact with Symantec and have been told that the Virus definitions posted yesterday (2005-02-09) contain a signature which will detect any attempt to exploit this vulnerability and quarantine the virus. This does not fix the problem, we are all still going to have to patch & upgrade but it does offer a little protection.

Cheers:

[ny9777]

According to Symantec's website version 9.0 (enterprise or corporate whatever you want to call it) there are no updates at this time. Keep you fingers crossed. We have the latetest def's and will watch very carefully.

[SawPer]

Maaaan!
Symantec's stupid documentation says sometimes you have the Maintenance Releases available and sometimes not. Sometimes Live Update will fix it. Download the latest MR from here: http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/
I tried Live Update, but nopes.. not getting the latest version.
And I search all over for this stupid MR and can't find it anywhere... end up having to call them, and the guy says, yeah.. got phone calls about that all morning.. ! It's not very well described on the homepage, but you actually have to download the latest full product and reinstall the whole thing.. !!!

So here I'm waiting for this 213MB file to finish downloading now.. and some fun reinstallation... joy!
This was supposed to be a nice 4 day work week... argh!

At least tomorrow will be an easy day to reboot servers.. heh!

[DjM]

Originally posted here by ny9777
According to Symantec's website version 9.0 (enterprise or corporate whatever you want to call it) there are no updates at this time. Keep you fingers crossed. We have the latetest def's and will watch very carefully.

Symantec will be releasing v.10 in March I am told. I have also been told that the risk of waiting (to upgrade to v.10) is low and at this time the def's should serve to protect our systems until then.

As for the "no updates at this time". The story I am getting, is that they (Symantec) are working on the latest versions first (v.10) and will work their way down. For those still running version 8.0.1 or lower, don't hold your breath, they will likely not be patched.

Cheers: