Denial of Service Vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus Products
CVE-2008-1737

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Sophos
Status
Anti-virus
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 April 2008

Summary

A vulnerability exists in Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0.5 and other 7.x versions when Runtime Behavioural Analysis is enabled. This flaw allows local users to initiate a denial of service, which can result in a system reboot with the anti-virus product disabled. Moreover, the vulnerability could potentially enable unauthorized privilege escalation. It occurs due to insufficient validation of a length field in the ObjectAttributes argument within the NtCreateKey function in the hooked System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT).

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29996
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28743
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http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3838
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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