CVE-2008-1737

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-1737
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-04-30 00:10:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-11 20:36:00 UTC
DescriptionSophos Anti-Virus 7.0.5, and other 7.x versions, when Runtime Behavioural Analysis is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot with the product disabled) and possibly gain privileges via a zero value in a certain length field in the ObjectAttributes argument to the NtCreateKey hooked System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sophos Anti-virus 7.0.5 All All All
Application Sophos Anti-virus 7.0.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Sophos Anti-Virus Lets Local Users Deny Service and Potentially Gain Elevated Privileges - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com
Advisory: Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, denial of service vulnerability CONFIRM www.sophos.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Sophos Anti-Virus "NtCreateKey()" Hooked Function Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Core Security Technologies MISC www.coresecurity.com
Sophos Anti-Virus SSDT Hooks Local Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
SecurityReason - Insufficient argument validation of hooked SSDT functions on multiple Antivirus and Firewalls SREASON securityreason.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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