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CVE-2016-5311

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CVE-2016-5311

Published: Jan 9, 2020

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Symantec

Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360

affected
before 22.7

Symantec

Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Cloud, and Endpoint Protection Cloud Client

affected
before 22.8.0.50

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