Symantec Releases Security Update

Original release date: November 09, 2015

Symantec has released an update to address vulnerabilities in Symantec Endpoint Protection version 12.1. Exploitation one of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system.

US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Security Advisory from Symantec and apply the necessary update.


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CVE-2015-8001

The chunked upload API (ApiUpload) in MediaWiki before 1.23.11, 1.24.x before 1.24.4, and 1.25.x before 1.25.3 does not restrict the uploaded data to the claimed file size, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via a chunk that exceeds the file size.

CVE-2015-8002

The chunked upload API (ApiUpload) in MediaWiki before 1.23.11, 1.24.x before 1.24.4, and 1.25.x before 1.25.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a file upload using one byte chunks.