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Google’s Project Zero Team Discovers Critical Vulnerabilities in Symantec and Norton

By CircleID Reporter

“These vulnerabilities are as bad as it gets,” says Google’s Information Security Engineer, Tavis Ormandy, in reference to multiple critical vulnerabilities discovered affecting Symantec, a popular vendor in the enterprise security market. A consumer version is also sold under the Norton brand. Ormandy writes: “They don’t require any user interaction, they affect the default configuration, and the software runs at the highest privilege levels possible. In certain cases on Windows, vulnerable code is even loaded into the kernel, resulting in remote kernel memory corruption. As Symantec use the same core engine across their entire product line, all Symantec and Norton branded antivirus products are affected by these vulnerabilities.”

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