CVE-2018-5238 vulnerability in Symantec Products
Published on August 22, 2018
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.
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Affected Versions
Symantec Corporation Norton Power Eraser:- Version Prior to 5.3.0.24 is affected.
- Version Prior to 2.1.242 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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