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CA Anti-Virus Drivers Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA23378
Release Date: 2006-12-14
Last Update: 2006-12-18
Popularity: 9,924 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:CA Anti-Virus for the Enterprise 8.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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

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