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Symantec AV may execute viruses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wheeler)
Thu Feb 10 11:20:05 2005

To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Jeff Wheeler <jwheeler@usip.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:19:39 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


apparently a serious vulnerability that needs to be patched immediately 
- affects Symantec firewalls, anti-spam, retail, and enterprise 
products.

from Slashdot...
http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/02/10/1327220.shtml?tid=172&tid=128

original article from ZDNet...
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39180674,00.htm

Not sure if this is technically 'operational' but I'm sure it affects 
most of the people on this list.

--
Jeff Wheeler
Postmaster, Network Admin
US Institute of Peace


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