CVE-2016-5311

Description

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Cloud, and Endpoint Protection Cloud Client due to a DLL-preloading without path restrictions, which could let a local malicious user obtain system privileges.

References

https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20161117_00

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037325

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037324

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037323

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94295

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3