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Sophos Anti-Virus "NtCreateKey()" Hooked Function Denial of Service

Secunia Advisory: SA29996  
Release Date: 2008-04-29

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Sophos Anti-Virus 7.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1737 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
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Description:
Core Security Technologies has reported a vulnerability in Sophos Anti-Virus, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when handling arguments passed to the hooked SSDT function "NtCreateKey()". This can be exploited to cause a DoS by calling the affected function with specially crafted arguments.

Successful exploitation requires that the "Block suspicious behavior" detection is enabled.

The vulnerability affects version 7.x on Windows.

Solution:
The vendor is reportedly working on a fix.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Damian Saura, Anibal Sacco, Dario Menichelli, Norberto Kueffner, and Andres Blanco y Rodrigo Carvalho of Core Security Technologies

Original Advisory:
CORE-2008-0320:
http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php...ontentMod&action=item&id=2249

Sophos:
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/37810.html



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2 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Sophos Anti-Virus Multiple Archive Detection Bypass
2. Sophos Anti-Virus Archive Filename Script Insertion Vulnerability


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