Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-13682 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Symantec Encryption Desktop
Attack vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In Symantec Encryption Desktop before SED 10.4.1 MP2HF1, a kernel memory leak is a type of resource leak that can occur when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in such a way that memory which is no longer needed is not released. In object-oriented programming, a memory leak may happen when an object is stored in memory but cannot be accessed by the running code.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 25 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- HTTP DoS An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.
Nessus
NASL family Windows NASL id SYMANTEC_ENCRYPTION_DESKTOP_SYM17-010.NASL description The version of Symantec Encryption Desktop installed on the remote host is version 10.x prior to or equal to 10.4.1 MP2 hot fix 1. It is, therefore, affected by an unspecified denial of service and memory leak vulnerability. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 103837 published 2017-10-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103837 title Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.x =< 10.4.1 MP2HF1 (SYM17-010) NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_SYMANTEC_ENCRYPTION_DESKTOP_SYM17-010.NASL description The version of Symantec Encryption Desktop installed on the remote host is version 10.x prior to or equal to 10.4.1 MP2 hot fix 1. It is, therefore, affected by an unspecified denial of service and kernel memory leak vulnerability. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 103836 published 2017-10-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103836 title Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.x =< 10.4.1 MP2HF1 (SYM17-010)