CVE-2015-5689: Symantec Deployment Solution

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Symantec Deployment Solution: version 6.9 only
• Symantec Ghost Solutions Suite: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1 only

Published 2015-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.