Race condition vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection 2010 10.0.580 on Windows XP
CVE-2010-5166 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Race condition in McAfee Total Protection 2010 10.0.580 on Windows XP allows local users to bypass kernel-mode hook handlers, and execute dangerous code that would otherwise be blocked by a handler but not blocked by signature-based malware detection, via certain user-space memory changes during hook-handler execution, aka an argument-switch attack or a KHOBE attack. NOTE: this issue is disputed by some third parties because it is a flaw in a protection mechanism for situations where a crafted program has already begun to execute
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