CVE-2017-13683: Symantec Endpoint Encryption

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

In Symantec Endpoint Encryption before SEE 11.1.3HF3, 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 Endpoint Encryption: version 11.0.0 only; version 11.1.0 only; version 11.1.1 only; version 11.1.2 only

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