CVSS 3.0
9.1 criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-2208
Critical (9.1) in symantec anti-virus engine. EPSS 19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The kernel component in Symantec Anti-Virus Engine (AVE) 20151.1 before 20151.1.1.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory access violation and system crash) via a malformed PE header file.
Severity
- EPSS
- 19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- symantec:anti-virus_engine
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90653
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035903
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&suid=20160516_00
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=820
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39835/