Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-4855 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Symantec products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
The \Device\SymEvent driver in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.0.33, and other versions of Norton Personal Firewall, Internet Security, AntiVirus, SystemWorks, Symantec Client Security SCS 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, and 3.1, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition SAVCE 8.x, 9.x, 10.0, and 10.1, Symantec pcAnywhere 11.5 only, and Symantec Host, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via invalid data, as demonstrated by calling DeviceIoControl to send the data.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Exploit-Db
description | Symantec Multiple Products SymEvent Driver Local Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2006-4855. Dos exploit for windows platform |
id | EDB-ID:28588 |
last seen | 2016-02-03 |
modified | 2006-09-15 |
published | 2006-09-15 |
reporter | David Matousek |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/28588/ |
title | Symantec Multiple Products SymEvent Driver Local Denial of Service Vulnerability |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21938
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1591
- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.09.20a.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016889
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016892
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016893
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016894
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016895
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016896
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016897
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016898
- http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Norton-Insufficient-validation-of-SymEvent-driver-input-buffer.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446111/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20051
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3636
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28960