cvelist/2018/5xxx/CVE-2018-5238.json

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      "ASSIGNER" : "secure@symantec.com",
      "DATE_PUBLIC" : "2018-08-15T00:00:00",
      "ID" : "CVE-2018-5238",
      "STATE" : "PUBLIC"
   },
   "affects" : {
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            {
               "product" : {
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                        "product_name" : "Norton Power Eraser",
                        "version" : {
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                                 "version_value" : "Prior to 5.3.0.24"
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                     },
                     {
                        "product_name" : "SymDiag",
                        "version" : {
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                                 "version_value" : "Prior to 2.1.242"
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               "vendor_name" : "Symantec Corporation"
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   "data_version" : "4.0",
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            "lang" : "eng",
            "value" : "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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         {
            "name" : "https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1459.html",
            "refsource" : "CONFIRM",
            "url" : "https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1459.html"
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         {
            "name" : "105100",
            "refsource" : "BID",
            "url" : "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105100"
         }
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