>> CA Internet Security Suite and Anti-Virus Drivers Local Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Title : CA Internet Security Suite and Anti-Virus Drivers Local Denial of Service Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-5010 CVE ID : CVE-2006-6496
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-12-14
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in CA Anti-Virus and CA Internet Security Suite, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a denial of service. This issue is due to errors in the "VetMONNT.sys" and "VetFDDNT.sys" drivers that fail to properly handle NULL buffers, which could be exploited by local attackers to crash a vulnerable system via certain IOCTLs.
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