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		epmatsw on May 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Symantec/Norton Antivirus Remote Heap/Pool Memory ... Oh my god mailing the report to them crashed their mail server. You can't make this stuff up.

molyss on May 17, 2016 [–]

I didn't understand that part at first, but it is hilarious.

They apparently use their own product on their email server, which unpacked the POC by guessing the password of the archive, scanned the uncompressed file and triggered the bug that was being reported. Love it !

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