cve-2018-6707
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-13 23:00
Modified
2024-08-05 06:10
Severity ?
3.7 (Low) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
Summary
Denial of Service through Resource Depletion vulnerability in the agent in non-Windows McAfee Agent (MA) 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to cause DoS, unexpected behavior, or potentially unauthorized code execution via knowledge of the internal trust mechanism.
References
trellixpsirt@trellix.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106307
trellixpsirt@trellix.comhttps://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10260
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106307
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10260
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
McAfee McAfee Agent (MA) non-Windows non-Windows versions Version: 5.5.0
Version: 5.5.1
Version: 5.0.0   < 5.0.0*
Version: 5.0.6   <
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