McAfee Data Loss Prevention Discover Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

McAfee Data Loss Prevention Discover (McAfee DLP Discover) helps you locate and classify sensitive data, understand how it is used, and protect it. buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in versions of McAfee Data Loss Prevention Discover prior to 11.6.100. Overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability stems from the fact that the target buffer is a fixed size and the source size is incorrectly checked. An attacker could execute arbitrary code by placing a specially crafted Ami Pro (.sam) file on the machine and allowing DLP Discover to scan it.