Symantec Antivirus Products Vulnerable To Horrid Overflow Bug
>Tavis Ormandy of Google's Project Zero team has discovered a vulnerability in Symantec Antivirus Engine. The said engine is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when parsing malformed portable-executable (PE) header files, reports ZDNet. "Such malformed PE files can be received through incoming email, downloading of a document or application, or by visiting a malicious web site," Symantec said. "No user interaction is required to trigger the parsing of the malformed file." For Linux, OS X, and other Unix-like systems, the exploit results in a remote heap overflow as root in the Symantec or Norton process, Ormandy said in the Project Zero issue tracker. "On Windows, this results in kernel memory corruption, as the scan engine is loaded into the kernel (wtf!!!), making this a remote ring0 memory corruption vulnerability -- this is about as bad as it can possibly get," he said.
Source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/05/17/1814229/symantec-antivirus-products-vulnerable-to-horrid-overflow-bug
>LOADED INTO THE FUCKING KERNEL
Are antivirus a scam?
Antiviruses are more like your less drunk friend asking you if you're sure that you can jump that far.
Nothing can actually help you if you're retarded or a cripple.
Of course, if you really want to be secure, you just have to lock yourself at home and hope no one comes knocking.
>>54612353
>>Tavis Ormandy of Google's Project Zero team
>>Google's Project Zero
W0W its FUCKING NOTHING
>>54612353
Bump
>>54612353
>linking to a /. entry instead of the actual article
>>54612544
>shit analogy
>>54612728
>unfunny leddit humour
I want neo-/g/ to die.
>Windows developers
>>54614629
Fuck off, pedantic faggot. I'm not an oldfag, but I've been here for 9 years and it has always been like this.
>>54612353
Doesn't symantec distribute the most viruses so they have a reason to sell their products
>>54612353
Back to /pol/, asshat.
>>54614751
That's kaspersky
>>54614760
Fuck off, kike. Go back to Auschwitz.
>>54612353
>Are antivirus a scam?
Did you just realise?
>>54614751
>>54614840
>xD
choke on your own shit
>>54614760
Back to plebbit, kike.
>>54612353
>>54614760
>Chairman of Symantec: Dan Schulman
>His mother was named Ruth Schulman
>Schulman
>>54614760
>not knowing all of 4chan is aware of Jewish tricks
so when does " tavis " go to jail for hacking?
>>54615033
>ALL GERMAN NAMES ARE JEWISH
>>54615091
The German ending is usually mann, with two n. Also, her mother's name is Ruth.
Stop trying to trick us, merchant. The JIDF has no effect here.
>>54614760
We're all pol anon
>>54615142
>The German ending is usually mann, with two n.
Yiddish is practically a dialect of German.
The number of 'n's simply comes from the surname being used in an English-speaking country, as it would've been standardised to conform with German orthographic rules if it was in a German-speaking country.
It's completely meaningless.
>Also, her mother's name is Ruth.
Being from the Bible, Ruth is a name common to both Jews and Christians. All of the Ruths I personally know are Christian.
Also completely meaningless.
>>54615226
Nice try Schlomo, but I'm not falling for it.
>>54615226
stormweenies BTFO
>>54615070
he works for google zero and probably makes a lot of money for this
>>54615226
>>54615280
http://jewishbusinessnews.com/tags/dan-schulman/
>>54615332
http://jewishbusinessnews.com/tags/hillary-clinton/
>Hillary Rodham Clinton
>More like RodMAN
>not even RodMANN
Also, Dennis Rodman is a Black Hebrew Israelite.
>current year
>not using Common Sense 2016