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McAfee Agent: CVE-2018-6703: Mcafee agent update fixes a use after free vulnerability in the remote logging feature (SB10258)

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McAfee Agent: CVE-2018-6703: Mcafee agent update fixes a use after free vulnerability in the remote logging feature (SB10258)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/11/2018
Created
08/12/2020
Added
08/11/2020
Modified
08/11/2020

Description

Use After Free in Remote logging (which is disabled by default) in McAfee McAfee Agent (MA) 5.x prior to 5.6.0 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a Denial of Service and potentially a remote code execution via a specially crafted HTTP header sent to the logging service.

Solution(s)

  • mcafee-agent-upgrade-5-0-6-586
  • mcafee-agent-upgrade-5-5-1-462
  • mcafee-agent-upgrade-5-6-0-702

References

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