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Rising Antivirus "NtOpenProcess()" Hooked Function Denial of Service

Secunia Advisory: SA30007  
Release Date: 2008-04-29

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

Software:Rising Antivirus 19.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1738 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Core Security Technologies has reported a vulnerability in Rising Antivirus, 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 "NtOpenProcess()". This can be exploited to cause a DoS by calling the affected function with specially crafted arguments.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 19.60.0.0 and 19.66.0.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Upgrade to the fixed version 20.38.20.
http://rsdownload.rising.com.cn/for_down/rsfree/ravolusrfree.exe

Provided and/or discovered by:
Anibal Sacco, Core Security Technologies

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



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