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Norton Remove & Reinstall can be susceptible to a DLL preloading vulnerability

Published Sep 27, 2017

Description

Norton Remove & Reinstall can be susceptible to a DLL preloading vulnerability. These types of issues occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application. A Norton Remove & Reinstall update, version 4.4.0.58, has been released which addresses the aforementioned vulnerability.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner symantec
Published Sep 27, 2017
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Aug 24, 2017
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a