CVE-2014-1213

Sophos Anti-Virus Engine < 3.50.1 - Local Denial of Service via Mutex/Event Manipulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/102762
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286

Scores

EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (2)
sophos/scanning_engine < 3.48
sophos/sophos_anti-virus 10.0.11
Published Feb 10, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026