Symantec: serious failure that puts your pc at risk
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Symantec is today a legendary software company dedicated to protecting our computers from viruses, malwares, spywares, hacks and other niceties that we can find on the network of networks. Being the developer of Norton Antivirus and other software dedicated to the same field, it is one of the most important companies in the sector, so a failure in the security of its products could create many problems.
Symantec is the developer of Norton Antivirus
It turns out that researcher Tavis Ormandy, who works at Google's Zero Project, has discovered a serious security flaw in the antivirus engine that Symantec uses in its applications, including Norton Antivirus, and that it puts at risk all the computers that use software from Symantec.
As the researcher Tavos Ormandy explains, the problem originated in the way in which some data reached the search engine of the Symantec antivirus in different situations, in such a way that they caused an overflow in the buffer, leaving the computer completely exposed so that an attacker takes advantage of it.
Blue Screen in Symantec Antivirus
In the image above these lines, you can see that buffer overflow with the classic "blue screen of death", which can be used by anyone to obtain root privileges and execute malicious code on the affected computer. This security problem has been identified with the code CVE-2016-2208 and affects both Windows, Mac and Linux systems.
Fortunately, Tavis Ormandy has been a good person and warned Symantec about this security flaw, which affects applications such as Norton Antivirus, EndPoint Antivirus and Scan Engine, among others.
Symantec has reported that the security flaw was fixed in the latest version of its search engine v20151.1.1.4 where the problem is already solved and can be downloaded through LiveUpdate, they strongly recommend updating as soon as possible.
Finally, Ormandy has commented that there are other less serious failures that have been detected and that the company is working on them for its next updates.
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