The host is installed with Symantec Endpoint Protection and is possible to bypass security scan.

Successful exploitation will let attacker to pass sufficient specific events to the application to bypass an on-demand scan. Impact level: Application/System

No solution or patch was made available for at least one year since disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one. A Workaround is to Enable Tamper Protection.

Issue is caused by an unspecified error in the 'on-demand' scanning feature when another entity denies read access to the AntiVirus while the Tamper protection is disabled.

Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.x

• http://secunia.com/advisories/38653
• http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2010&suid=20100217_00
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0410

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Updated on 2015-03-25