All the vulnerabilites related to Symantec Corporation - SymDiag
cve-2018-5238
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-08-22 17:00
Modified
2024-09-17 00:21
Severity ?
Summary
Norton 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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Symantec Corporation SymDiag Version: Prior to 2.1.242
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