CVE-2017-13682: Symantec Encryption Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Symantec Encryption Desktop before SED 10.4.1 MP2HF1, a kernel memory leak is a type of resource leak that can occur when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in such a way that memory which is no longer needed is not released. In object-oriented programming, a memory leak may happen when an object is stored in memory but cannot be accessed by the running code.

Affected products

• Symantec Encryption Desktop: from 10.3.0, up to and including 10.4.1

Published 2017-10-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.