FrSIRT - Kaspersky Anti-Virus "klif.sys" Pointer Validation Denial of Service Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Kaspersky Anti-Virus "klif.sys" Pointer Validation Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Kaspersky Anti-Virus "klif.sys" Pointer Validation Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-2333
CVE ID : CVE-2006-3074
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-06-14

Advisory Details

Description

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Solution

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Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security Suite, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to invalid memory access in "klif.sys" when handling and using pointers supplied by user-space programs, which could be exploited by malicious users to reboot a vulnerable system.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Skywing

ChangeLog

2006-06-14 : Initial release
2006-07-05 : Updated Solution

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