CVE-2018-5238

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-5238
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-08-22 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-11-14 15:39:00 UTC
DescriptionNorton Power Eraser (prior to 5.3.0.24) and SymDiag (prior to 2.1.242) may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-427

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Symantec Norton Power Eraser All All All All
Application Symantec Norton Power Eraser All All All All
Application Symantec Symdiag All All All All
Application Symantec Symdiag All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Multiple Symantec Products CVE-2018-5238 DLL Loading Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Norton Utilities, Norton Power Eraser & Symdiag - DLL Preloading CONFIRM support.symantec.com Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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