Update your Symantec (firewall/gateway), update your Sophos (small business), please

[Gabriele Neukam]

Flaws have been found in the Symantec firewall and gateway configuration
system

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.09.22.html details can be read on
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2004-09/0296.html

and the Sophos virus scanner re the examination of files with certain
name endings by the small business edition

http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=143&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=false

Please get the fixes as soon as possible, because experience tells: As
soon as they are public, they exploits will be abused.


Gabriele Neukam

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[Bart Bailey]

Please get the fixes as soon as possible, because experience tells: As
soon as they are public, they exploits will be abused.

I guess the altruistic folk that used to uncover such sploits and
dutifully notify the affected companies got tired of being ignored, and
now we only hear of recently discovered vulns as a result of the mass
implementation of them through the latest worm infestations.