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>> Sophos Anti-Virus "NtCreateKeyHook()" Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Sophos Anti-Virus "NtCreateKeyHook()" Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1381
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1737
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-29
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A vulnerability has been identified in Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows, which could be exploited by local attackers or malware to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an input validation error when processing arguments passed to the hooked SSDT "NtCreateKey()" function, which could be exploited by malicious users to create a denial of service condition [...]
Affected Products
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows versions 7.x
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Damian Saura, Anibal Sacco, Dario Menichelli, Norberto Kueffner, Andres Blanco and Rodrigo Carvalho (Core Security Technologies).
ChangeLog
2008-04-29 : Initial release
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