vulnerability in various Symantec AntiVirus products

Once again the importance of updating regularly is clear.

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André Jerleke has reported a vulnerability in various Symantec AntiVirus products, which can be exploited by malware to bypass certain scanning functionality.

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There's a list of the products available on the site where I found the info --> SITE

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The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Symantec Antivirus component when processing encoded or archived content. This can be exploited to crash the decomposer component when parsing a specially crafted RAR file

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So whatch out when downloading those RaR-files :D

Offcourse updates are allready available :

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Updates are available via LiveUpdate and from the Symantec Support site.

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Link to original advisory Link also found on mentioned website.

I thought this might be of interest seeming alot of people use Symantec products.

Cya,

C.