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Status published
Medium
CVE-2021-23886
Local Denial of Service in McAfee DLP Endpoint for Windows
Vulnerability Description
Denial of Service vulnerability in McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows prior to 11.6.100 allows a local, low privileged, attacker to cause a BSoD through suspending a process, modifying the processes memory and restarting it. This is triggered by the hdlphook driver reading invalid memory.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
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Affected Vendor
McAfee,LLC
View all reports →Affected Software
McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint for Windows
Vulnerable Versions:
unspecified
Timeline
Official Publish:
April 15th, 2021
Last Modified:
August 3rd, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H