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Vulnerability CVE-2014-1213
Published: 2014-02-10 Modified: 2014-02-11
| Description: |
Sophos Anti-Virus engine (SAVi) before 3.50.1, as used in VDL 4.97G 9.7.x before 9.7.9, 10.0.x before 10.0.11, and 10.3.x before 10.3.1 does not set an ACL for certain global and session objects, which allows local users to bypass anti-virus protection, cause a denial of service (resource consumption, CPU consumption, and eventual crash) or spoof "ready for update" messages by performing certain operations on mutexes or events including (1) DataUpdateRequest, (2) MmfMutexSAV-****, (3) MmfMutexSAV-Info, (4) ReadyForUpdateSAV-****, (5) ReadyForUpdateSAV-Info, (6) SAV-****, (7) SAV-Info, (8) StateChange, (9) SuspendedSAV-****, (10) SuspendedSAV-Info, (11) UpdateComplete, (12) UpdateMutex, (13) UpdateRequest, or (14) SophosALMonSessionInstance, as demonstrated by triggering a ReadyForUpdateSAV event and modifying the UpdateComplete, UpdateMutex, and UpdateRequest objects. |
See advisories in our WLB2 database: | Topic | Author | Date |
Med. |
| Graham Sutherlan... | 04.02.2014 |
Type:
CWE-264 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)
CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
5.6/10 |
7.8/10 |
3.9/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Local |
Low |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
None |
Partial |
Complete |
References: |
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1
http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx
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