CVE-2016-4329

medium

Description

A local denial of service vulnerability exists in window broadcast message handling functionality of Kaspersky Anti-Virus software. Sending certain unhandled window messages, an attacker can cause application termination and in the same way bypass KAV self-protection mechanism.

References

https://support.kaspersky.com/vulnerability.aspx?el=12430#010916

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92771/info

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92771

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-01-06

Updated: 2026-05-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00053