CVE-2001-1125 (GCVE-0-2001-1125)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2002-03-15 05:00
Modified
2025-01-16 17:04
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Symantec LiveUpdate before 1.6 does not use cryptography to ensure the integrity of download files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via DNS spoofing of the update.symantec.com site.
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