CVE-2016-5308 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Client Intrusion Detection System (CIDS) driver within Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and Norton Security. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and a system crash by presenting a malformed Portable Executable (PE) file to the affected systems. This vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 15.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:client_intrusion_detection_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 15.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:client_intrusion_detection_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.