CVE-2014-1213

Description

Sophos Anti-Virus engine (SAVi) before 3.50.1, as used in VDL 4.97G 9.7.x before 9.7.9, 10.0.x before 10.0.11, and 10.3.x before 10.3.1 does not set an ACL for certain global and session objects, which allows local users to bypass anti-virus protection, cause a denial of service (resource consumption, CPU consumption, and eventual crash) or spoof "ready for update" messages by performing certain operations on mutexes or events including (1) DataUpdateRequest, (2) MmfMutexSAV-****, (3) MmfMutexSAV-Info, (4) ReadyForUpdateSAV-****, (5) ReadyForUpdateSAV-Info, (6) SAV-****, (7) SAV-Info, (8) StateChange, (9) SuspendedSAV-****, (10) SuspendedSAV-Info, (11) UpdateComplete, (12) UpdateMutex, (13) UpdateRequest, or (14) SophosALMonSessionInstance, as demonstrated by triggering a ReadyForUpdateSAV event and modifying the UpdateComplete, UpdateMutex, and UpdateRequest objects.

References

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded

http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html

http://osvdb.org/102762

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3