CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8577

Published: Dec 16, 2015 | Modified: May 26, 2016
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Buffer Overflow Protection (BOP) feature in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise before 8.8 Patch 6 allocates memory with Read, Write, Execute (RWX) permissions at predictable addresses on 32-bit platforms when protecting another application, which allows attackers to bypass the DEP and ASLR protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Virusscan_enterprise Mcafee * 8.8.0 (including)

References