CVE-2005-3657 (GCVE-0-2005-3657)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-12-21 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:17
VLAI?
Summary
The ActiveX control in MCINSCTL.DLL for McAfee VirusScan Security Center does not use the IObjectSafetySiteLock API to restrict access to required domains, which allows remote attackers to create or append to arbitrary files via the StartLog and AddLog methods in the MCINSTALL.McLog object.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/279 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015390 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3006 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilit… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15986 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/18169 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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