A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Symantec Endpoint Protection and Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition up to 14.2 RU2 (Anti-Malware Software). Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM), prior to 14.2 RU2 MP1, may be susceptible to an out of bounds vulnerability, which is a type of issue that results in an existing application reading memory outside of the bounds of the memory that had been allocated to the program.

The weakness was presented 02/03/2020 as SYMSA1505 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.symantec.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-5829 since 01/06/2020. The attack needs to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 14.2 RU2 MP1 or 14.2.5569.2100 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

See 149979, 149980, 149981 and 149982 for similar entries.

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• Endpoint Protection
• Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition

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