Symantec antivirus bug allows utter exploitation of memory

Cross-platform nasty is simplicity itself to exploit, so get patching peeps

British white hat hacker and Google Project Zero chap Tavis Ormandy is making life miserable for Symantec again: the bug-hunter has turned up an exploitable overflow in "the core Symantec Antivirus Engine used in most Symantec and Norton branded Antivirus products"."