McAfee DLP Agent Stack Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

EIP-035220ca

The vulnerability affects both Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows and the DLP Discover products from McAfee. The vulnerability is present within the included lasr.dll module, which is part of the Keyview SDK3 , and is responsible for parsing Ami Pro (.sam) files during server content inspection. A file format parsing vulnerability results in a stack-based buffer overflow that can be abused to achieve remote code execution.

Vulnerability Identifiers

  • Exodus Intelligence: EIP-035220ca
  • MITRE CVE: CVE-2021-31844, CVE-2021-31845

Vulnerability Metrics

  • CVSSv2 Score: 8.2

Vendor References

Discovery Credit

  • Exodus Intelligence

Disclosure Timeline

  • Disclosed to affected vendor: February 24th, 2021
  • Disclosed to public: September 14th, 2021

Further Information

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