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Kaspersky Products kl1.sys Driver Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA30534
Release Date: 2008-06-04
Last Update: 2008-06-05
Popularity: 6,642 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2008
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.x
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations 6.x
Kaspersky Internet Security 6.x
Kaspersky Internet Security 7.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in some Kaspersky products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the kl1.sys driver when handling IOCTL 0x800520e8. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in the following versions:
* Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 and 7.0
* Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 and 7.0
* Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations

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