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>> Kaspersky Anti-Virus "klim5.sys" Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Kaspersky Anti-Virus "klim5.sys" Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2009-0309
CVE ID : CVE-2009-0449
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2009-02-02


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A vulnerability has been identified in Kaspersky Anti-Virus, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service or gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "klim5.sys" driver when processing user-land supplied addresses via IOCTL "0x80052110", which could allow malicious users to crash an affected system or execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected Products

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2008
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for WorkStations 6.0

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0309
http://www.wintercore.com/advisories/advisory_W020209.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Ruben Santamarta (Wintercore).

ChangeLog

2009-02-02 : Initial release

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