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CVE-2016-6590

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when loading DLLs during boot up and reboot in Symantec IT Management Suite 8.0 prior to 8.0 HF4 and Suite 7.6 prio…

Impact

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when loading DLLs during boot up and reboot in Symantec IT Management Suite 8.0 prior to 8.0 HF4 and Suite 7.6 prior to 7.6 HF7, Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 3.1 prior to 3.1 MP4, Symantec Endpoint Virtualization 7.x prior to 7.6 HF7, and Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.x prior to 10.4.1, which could let a local malicious user execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
SymantecEncryption Desktop
from 10.0.0 before 10.4.1
SymantecEndpoint Encryption
from 7.0 before 7.6
Version 7.6
SymantecGhost Solution Suite
Version 3.1
SymantecIt Management Suite
Versions 7.6, 8.0

Weakness classification

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