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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-12-16T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:20:43.502Z

Reserved: 2015-12-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8577

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2015-12-16T18:59:00.123

Modified: 2016-05-26T12:32:18.957

Link: CVE-2015-8577

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