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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.2 High

CVE-2021-31844

Local Privilege Escalation in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows prior to 11.6.200 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges through placing carefully constructed Ami Pro (.sam) files onto the local system and triggering a DLP Endpoint scan through accessing a file. This is caused by the destination buffer being of fixed size and incorrect checks being made on the source size.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

McAfee,LLC McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows

  • unspecified to < 10.6.200affected

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