DLL Preloading Vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection Prior to 14.2 MP1

CVE-2018-12245 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Symantec Endpoint Protection prior to 14.2 MP1 may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which in this case is an issue that can occur when an application being installed unintentionally loads a DLL provided by a potential attacker. Note that this particular type of exploit only manifests at install time; no remediation is required for software that has already been installed. This issue only impacted the Trialware media for Symantec Endpoint Protection, which has since been updated.

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