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CA Products kmxfw.sys Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA31434
Release Date: 2008-08-12
Last Update: 2008-08-13
Popularity: 2,835 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (CA HIPS) 8.x
CA Internet Security Suite 2007 3.x
CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008 4.x
CA Personal Firewall 2007
CA Personal Firewall 2008

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in multiple CA products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to potentially gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS.

1) An error exists within the processing of IOCTL requests in the kmxfw.sys kernel driver. This can be exploited to cause a system crash or to potentially execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.

2) An unspecified error in the kmxfw.sys driver can be exploited to cause a DoS.

The vulnerabilities are reported in the following products:
* CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System r8
* CA Internet Security Suite 2007
* CA Internet Security Suite 2008
* CA Personal Firewall 2007
* CA Personal Firewall 2008

Change Page:
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