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A critical flaw in Symantec antivirus engine puts computers at risk of easy hacking

May 18, 2016

Via: CSO
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The antivirus engine used in multiple Symantec products has an easy-to-exploit vulnerability that could allow hackers to easily compromise computers.

The flaw was fixed by Symantec in Anti-Virus Engine (AVE) version 20151.1.1.4,  released Monday via LiveUpdate. The flaw consists of a buffer overflow condition that could be triggered when parsing executable files with malformed headers.

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