The Symantec Messaging Gateway, when processing a specific email attachment, can allow a malformed or corrupted Word file with a potentially malicious macro through despite the administrator having the 'disarm' functionality enabled. This constitutes a 'bypass' of the disarm functionality resident to the application.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-15385 The Symantec Messaging Gateway, when processing a specific email attachment, can allow a malformed or corrupted Word file with a potentially malicious macro through despite the administrator having the 'disarm' functionality enabled. This constitutes a 'bypass' of the disarm functionality resident to the application.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: symantec

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:25:49.171Z

Reserved: 2017-02-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-6324

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-06-26T21:29:00.187

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-6324

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