Symantec, Norton need vital patches in next 24 hours

Spinner

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

EyesOnly

Thanks for the warning. I'm updating now. Well i tried. Seems i have all updates.

Spinner

EyesOnly wrote:

Thanks for the warning. I'm updating now. Well i tried. Seems i have all updates.

Yes that was the case with me as well. I imagine mine automatically updated itself, but I don't know. Others have reported manual updates appearing, I guess it depends on your setup and software versions.

KingFish

Just got mine patched

KF