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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-17020 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: symantec

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T00:21:49.834Z

Reserved: 2018-01-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-5238

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-22T17:29:00.837

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:08:24.160

Link: CVE-2018-5238

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