A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Cloud, and Endpoint Protection Cloud Client due to a DLL-preloading without path restrictions, which could let a local malicious user obtain system privileges.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-6262 A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Cloud, and Endpoint Protection Cloud Client due to a DLL-preloading without path restrictions, which could let a local malicious user obtain system privileges.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: symantec

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:00:58.618Z

Reserved: 2016-06-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5311

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-01-09T20:15:11.163

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:54:04.670

Link: CVE-2016-5311

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