Rising Antivirus SSDT() denial of service
| risingantivirus-ssdt-dos (42084) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Rising Antivirus is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input when handling arguments passed to the "NtOpenProcess()" System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function. By invoking the function with specially-crafted arguments, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 2.1 |
| Access Vector: | Local |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 1.6 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Rising Antivirus (20.38.20 or later), available from the RISING Web site. See References.
References:
- CORE-2008-0320: Insufficient argument validation of hooked SSDT functions on multiple Antivirus and Firewalls.
- RISING Web site: Product Downloads.
- BID-28744: Rising Antivirus SSDT 'NtOpenProcess()' Hook Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-1738: Rising Antivirus 2008 before 20.38.20 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an invalid pointer to the _CLIENT_ID structure in a call to the NtOpenProcess hooked System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function.
- SA30007: Rising Antivirus "NtOpenProcess()" Hooked Function Denial of Service
- SECTRACK ID: 1019946: Rising Antivirus Lets Local Users Deny Service and Potentially Gain Elevated Privileges
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-1382: Rising Antivirus NtOpenProcess() Denial of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Rising International Rising Antivirus 19.60.0.0
- Rising International Rising Antivirus 19.66.0.0
Reported:
Apr 28, 2008
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