CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-4953

9.3 HIGH Published 2012-11-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-11-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The decomposer engine in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11.0, Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 12.0, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition (SAVCE) 10.x, and Symantec Scan Engine (SSE) before 5.2.8 does not properly perform bounds checks of the contents of CAB archives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.

Affected configurations

• symantec antivirus 10.1.0 • symantec antivirus 10.1.4 • symantec antivirus 10.1.5 • symantec antivirus 10.1.6 • symantec antivirus 10.1.7 • symantec antivirus 10.1.8 • symantec antivirus 10.1.9 • symantec endpoint protection 11.0 • symantec endpoint protection 12.0 • symantec scan engine (<= 5.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References