CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8577
2.6 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-12-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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 configurations
• mcafee virusscan enterprise (<= 8.8.0)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://blog.ensilo.com/the-av-vulnerability-that-bypasses-mitigations blog.ensilo.com
- http://breakingmalware.com/vulnerabilities/sedating-watchdog-abusing-security-products-bypass-mitigations/ breakingmalware.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78810 www.securityfocus.com
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10142 Vendor Advisory
- http://blog.ensilo.com/the-av-vulnerability-that-bypasses-mitigations blog.ensilo.com
- http://breakingmalware.com/vulnerabilities/sedating-watchdog-abusing-security-products-bypass-mitigations/ breakingmalware.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78810 www.securityfocus.com
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10142 Vendor Advisory