SB2016092111 - Denial of service in Symantec Web Gateway
Published: September 21, 2016
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016092111
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5309)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause denial of service on the target application.The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds memory read error. By using specially crafted RAR file attacker can cause denial of the application service.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability resuslts in denial of service on the vulnerable application.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.