Description: A vulnerability has been reported in McAfee ProtectionPilot and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of long source headers. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and potentially allows to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted request to a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability has been reported in McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.1.0 and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5.0. Other versions may also be affected.
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