Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in various Symantec products, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the Autonomy KeyView module, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected server or application or execute arbitrary code.

Affected Products

Symantec Mail Security for Domino 5.x
Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange 5.x
Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange 6.x
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.x
Symantec Mail Security Appliance/ Symantec BrightMail Appliance 5.x
Symantec BrightMail Appliance
Symantec Data Loss Prevention Detection Servers/Enforce 7.x
Symantec Data Loss Prevention Endpoint Agents 8.x
Symantec Data Loss Prevention Detection Servers/Enforce for Windows 8.x
Symantec Data Loss Prevention Detection Servers/Enforce for Linux 8.x
Symantec Data Loss Prevention Endpoint Agents 8.x

Solution

Apply patches :
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2009.03.17a.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0744
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2009.03.17a.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by iDefense.

ChangeLog

2009-03-17 : Initial release

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