Nearly 30 Symantec Titles Open To Attack

February 09, 2005 (1:59 PM EST)

Symantec on Tuesday released patches for a vulnerability found in a large number of its products, including flagship titles such as BrightMail AntiSpam, AntiVirus Corporate Edition, and its 2004 consumer slate.

According to rival Internet Security Systems' X-Force research group, which discovered the flaw, the bug is in the DEC2EXE module of the Symantec Antivirus Library, a part of the scanning engine that's able to peek into compressed executable files squeezed with the UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) format.

"This vulnerability can be triggered by an unauthenticated remote attacker, without user interaction, by sending an e-mail containing a crafted UPX file to the target Symantec AntiVirus Library on client, server, and gateway implementations," said X-Force in its advisory. A successful attack could give the attacker complete control of the supposedly-protected system.

Symantec ranked the danger as "High," while Danish security firm Secunia, which also posted a warning, rated it as "Highly Critical."

Symantec posted a security alert on its Web site that listed the 29 vulnerable Windows (and Macintosh) products, along with recommendations to update and/or upgrade the flawed software.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based security giant spun the news by claiming that even before ISS notified it of the vulnerability, it had already removed the DEC2EXE module from the scan engine upgrades in most of its products. It now plans to strip the offending module from all affected versions during upcoming maintenance releases.

Even though a rival dug up the bug, there didn't seem to be any ill feelings on Symantec's part. "Symantec appreciates the actions of the X-Force research team and X-Force's Alex Wheeler in particular for identifying this issue to Symantec and their cooperation and coordination while Symantec worked to resolve all issues," the company said in a statement.


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I've just switched to Nod32 from Norton Anti-virus 2005 for anti-virus protection [not because of this]so don't have any Symantec stuff installed,thought those who might have would like to know this

Gee who do they think are Microsoft ? Not even close! But did like this statement . Shows their a class act .


Quote : Even though a rival dug up the bug, there didn't seem to be any ill feelings on Symantec's part. "Symantec appreciates the actions of the X-Force research team and X-Force's Alex Wheeler in particular for identifying this issue to Symantec and their cooperation and coordination while Symantec worked to resolve all issues," the company said in a statement.


Edit: off to update me Symantec ! :D Well major updates tonite , did last nite too so this are new . Thanks for the heads up ZaZu, much appreciated . ;)



Edit: My Giant antispyware notified me of a change to my start up files after installing the lastest Norton up dates . I have NSW 2005 , but using Symantec Corp Virus . Scared the shit out of me ! :blushing:

affected Products:
Symantec Norton Antivirus 2004 for Windows
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 (pro) for Windows
Symantec Norton System Works 2004 for Windows
Symantec Norton Antivirus 2004 for Macintosh
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 for Macintosh
Symantec Norton System Works 2004 for Macintosh
Symantec Norton Antivirus 9.0 for Macintosh
Symantec Norton Internet Security for Macintosh 3.0
Symantec Norton System Works for Macintosh 3.0
Norton AntiVirus for Microsoft Exchange 2.1 prior to build 2.18.85
Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange 4.0 prior to build 4.0.10.465
Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange 4.5 prior to build 4.5.3
Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Domino NT 3.1 prior to build 3.1.1
Symantec Mail Security for Domino 4.0 prior to build 4.0.1
Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Domino Ports 3.0
(AIX) prior to build 3.0.6
(OS400, Linux, Solaris) prior to build 3.0.7
Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 4.3 prior to build 4.3.3
Symantec AntiVirus for Network Attached Storage prior to build 4.3.3
Symantec AntiVirus for Caching prior to build 4.3.3
Symantec AntiVirus for SMTP 3.1 prior to build 3.1.7
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 4.0 prior to build 4.0.2
Symantec Web Security 3.0 prior to build 3.0.1.70
Symantec BrightMail AntiSpam 4.0
Symantec BrightMail AntiSpam 5.5
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0 prior to build 9.01.1000
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.01, 8.1.1
Symantec Client Security 2.0 prior to build 9.01.1000
Symantec Client Security 1.0, 1.0
Symantec Gateway Security 2.0, 2.0.1 – 5400 Series
Symantec Gateway Security 1.0 – 5300 Series


Latest Symantec AntiVirus Corporate isnt on the list :01:

The start entry was a run once . Mabye checking my products ? :huh:

wow...NIS 2005 isn't affected! Yay. Always good to upgrade. :D