What is CVE-2016-8030?

CVE-2016-8030 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2017-04-25.

How severe is CVE-2016-8030?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise

CVE-2016-8030

A memory corruption vulnerability in Scriptscan COM Object in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Patch 8 and earlier allows remote attackers to create a Denial of Service on the active Internet Explorer tab via a crafted HTML link.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.012 (63.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise — versions 8.8 Patch 8 and earlier
Mcafee Virusscan_enterprise

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

secure@intel.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secure@intel.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-8030?: CVE-2016-8030 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2017-04-25.
How severe is CVE-2016-8030?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.