CVE-2010-3268

CVE-2010-3268 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Intel Alert Handler service (prgxhndl.dll in hndlrsvc.exe) within Intel Alert Management System (AMS), affecting Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 10.1.4.4010 and Symantec Endpoint Protection prior to 11.x. The flaw stems from insufficient validation of the CommandLine field in AMS requests, allowing remote attackers to crash the application with a crafted request. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.