Secunia Security Advisory - Heurs has discovered a vulnerability in Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 kl1.sys Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37398
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37398/
DESCRIPTION:
Heurs has discovered a vulnerability in Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the kl1.sys driver
when handling IOCTLs. This can be exploited to dereference invalid
memory and cause a kernel crash via a specially crafted 0x0022C008
IOCTL.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 9.0.0.463. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 9.0.0.736.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Heurs
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sysdream.com/article.php?story_id=323§ion_id=78
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