Trellix Agent prior 5.7.9 on macOS macmnsvc Process heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Trellix Agent on macOS. This affects an unknown part of the component macmnsvc Process. Such manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-1388. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Trellix Agent on macOS. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component macmnsvc Process. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A heap-based overflow vulnerability in TA prior to version 5.7.9 allows a remote user to alter the page heap in the macmnsvc process memory block, resulting in the service becoming unavailable.

The weakness was disclosed 06/07/2023. The advisory is available at kcm.trellix.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-1388 since 03/14/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 5.7.9 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Trellix

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• Agent

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• commercial

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