CVE-2016-8005 in McAfee Email Gateway

Summary

File extension filtering vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) before 7.6.404h1128596 allows attackers to fail to identify the file name properly via scanning an email with a forged attached filename that uses a null byte within the filename extension.

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• Reservation: 09/09/2016
• Disclosure: 03/14/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-97921
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.9
• EPSS: 0.00219
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8005
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8005
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-8005/