Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Unscored CVE-2015-8577 EUVD-2015-8455GHSA-hmcg-84c5-h52c

The Buffer Overflow Protection (BOP) feature in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise before 8.8 Patch 6 allocates memory with Read, Write, Execute (…

Published Dec 16, 2015 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

The Buffer Overflow Protection (BOP) feature in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise before 8.8 Patch 6 allocates memory with Read, Write, Execute (RWX) permissions at predictable addresses on 32-bit platforms when protecting another application, which allows attackers to bypass the DEP and ASLR protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors.

References