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[Discuss] [OT] Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets'



Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> writes:

> On 6/29/2016 2:36 PM, MBR wrote:
>> Does anyone have a technical description of how exactly this 
>> vulnerability operates?
>
> https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-compromise-enterprise-endpoint.html

"Symantec runs their unpackers in the Kernel!"

To quote one of Hillary Clinton's emails: "WHAT??? Or, more to the point, WTF??"

-- 
Mike Small
smallm at sdf.org



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