It has been reported that almost the entire range of Symantec security software, from Norton Internet Security through to the Symantec Firewall require urgent updates, the company has warned, after a series of four extremely critical vulnerabilities were found by security company eEye Digital Security Inc.
Symantec was informed of the holes on April 19, and has provided patches for them Thursday. The patches should be installed as part of the Live Update feature in most packages but some will require the manual download and installation of patches, and those that have automatic updating switched off will need to run Live Update as soon as possible.
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EEye explains in its advisories that the holes (all within the “symdns.sys” driver) allow system access, the opportunity to create a denial-of-service attack, and — most serious — an open door to a worm.
Thanks to Lammypie for the quick heads up on this one!
Source: InfoWorld
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