Information about the flaw can be found at.

In October a critical flaw was found in the company's Scan Engine software. Last December, researcher Alex Wheeler discovered a flaw in Symantec's Antivirus Library that could allow remote attackers to gain control of systems that used Symantec's products. Symantec's Norton line of consumer antivirus products are not affected.Ī number of other flaws have been reported in Symantec's security products over the past year. The problem affects version 3.0 and above of Client Security, and version 10 and above of Antivirus Corporate Edition. That has not happened to date, and Symantec is 'not aware of any customers impacted by this vulnerability, or of any exploits of this vulnerability,' the alert said. Symantec did not release many details on the flaw, but eEye has warned that it is the kind of vulnerability that could be used to build a self-replicating worm attack, similar to the Blaster and Slammer outbreaks of 2003.

The patches are for English language versions of Symantec's products only, and a Symantec spokesman could not say when the complete line of products would be patched.

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