CVE-2015-5689

medium

Published 2015-09-20 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

ghostexp.exe in Ghost Explorer Utility in Symantec Ghost Solutions Suite (GSS) before 3.0 HF2 12.0.0.8010 and Symantec Deployment Solution (DS) before 7.6 HF4 12.0.0.7045 performs improper sign-extend operations before array-element accesses, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial of service (application crash), or possibly obtain sensitive information via a crafted Ghost image.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
symantec	deployment_solution	`6.9`
symantec	ghost_solutions_suite	`1.0`
symantec	ghost_solutions_suite	`1.1`
symantec	ghost_solutions_suite	`2.0`
symantec	ghost_solutions_suite	`2.0.1`
symantec	ghost_solutions_suite	`2.0.2`
symantec	ghost_solutions_suite	`2.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.