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CA Anti-Virus Drivers Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA23378
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Release Date:
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2006-12-14
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Last Update:
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2006-12-18
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Popularity:
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9,180 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | CA Anti-Virus for the Enterprise 8.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-6496
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Description:
Rubén Santamarta has reported two vulnerabilities in CA Anti-Virus, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within the vetmonnt.sys and vetfddnt.sys drivers when handling NULL buffers. This can be exploited via various IOCTLs to crash the system.
The vulnerabilities are reported in the following products:
* CA Anti-Virus 2007 version 8.1
* CA Anti-Virus for Vista Beta version 8.2
* CA Internet Security Suite 2007 version 3.0
Solution:
Updated drivers are available for CA customers.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Rubén Santamarta
Changelog:
2006-12-18: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?...;Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=41
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