Vulnerabilites related to McAfee - McAfee Agent (MA) non-Windows non-Windows versions
CVE-2018-6707 (GCVE-0-2018-6707)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-13 23:00
Modified
2024-08-05 06:10
CWE
  • Denial of Service
Summary
Denial of Service through Resource Depletion vulnerability in the agent in non-Windows McAfee Agent (MA) 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to cause DoS, unexpected behavior, or potentially unauthorized code execution via knowledge of the internal trust mechanism.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
McAfee McAfee Agent (MA) non-Windows non-Windows versions Version: 5.5.0
Version: 5.5.1
Version: 5.0.0   < 5.0.0*
Version: 5.0.6   <
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