Norton Utilities (prior to 16.0.3.44) may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105099 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1459.html Mitigation Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: symantec

Published: 2018-08-15T00:00:00

Updated: 2018-08-23T09:57:01

Reserved: 2018-01-05T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-5235

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-08-22T17:29:00.710

Modified: 2020-08-24T17:37:01.140


Link: CVE-2018-5235

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