McAfee VirusScan Enterprise < 8.8 Patch 9 Scriptscan COM Object DoS (SB10194)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 100125

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Synopsis

The antivirus application installed on the remote Windows host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The version of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 8.9 Patch 9. It is, therefore, affected by a memory corruption issue in the Scriptscan COM object. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted HTML link, to cause a denial of service condition on the active Internet Explorer tab. Note that this denial of service occurs only after a fresh installation of the Scriptscan COM DLL during initialization.

Solution

Upgrade to McAfee VirusScan Enterprise version 8.8 Patch 9.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 100125

File Name: mcafee_vse_sb10194.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 5/11/2017

Updated: 7/14/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise

Required KB Items: Antivirus/McAfee/installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8030

BID: 98041

MCAFEE-SB: SB10194

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