Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-13683 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Encryption
Attack vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In Symantec Endpoint Encryption before SEE 11.1.3HF3, 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 |
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Application | 4 |
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_ENDPOINT_ENCRYPTION_DRIVE_ENCRYPTION_SYM17-010.NASL |
description | The version of the Symantec Endpoint Encryption (SEE) Drive Encryption Client installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 11.1.3 HF23. 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 | 103839 |
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/103839 |
title | Symantec Endpoint Encryption < 11.1.3 HF3 (SYM17-010) |
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