CVE-2018-5238

Published Aug 22, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 7.8 High EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
symantec
Published
Updated
Sep 17, 2024, 12:21 AM
Reserved
Jan 5, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 22, 2018, 5:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:59 AM