Tavis Ormandy identified Symantec and Norton flaws that cybercriminals may use to gain access to users' data.
There were 17 items on the list of vulnerable Symantec enterprise products. On the Symantec website, these items had been listed as a security advisory.
Malware concealed in an executable file had a chance to obtain total access to the computer running the operating system, it was discovered that Symantec decompressed files in the operating system's kernel.
Source: https://mackeeper.com/blog/data-breach-reports-2016/
"id": "SYM44121823",
"linkid": "symantec",
"type": "Vulnerability",
"date": "06/2016",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"