CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4648
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-08-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The nvcoaft51 driver in Norman Virus Control (NVC) 5.82 uses weak permissions (unrestricted write access) for the NvcOa device, which allows local users to gain privileges by (1) triggering a buffer overflow in a kernel pool via a string argument to ioctl 0xBF67201C; or by (2) sending a crafted KEVENT structure through ioctl 0xBF672028 to overwrite arbitrary memory locations.
Affected configurations
• norman norman virus control 5.82
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3087 securityreason.com
- http://www.48bits.com/exploits/nvc.rar Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478224/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25499 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018636 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36373 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3087 securityreason.com
- http://www.48bits.com/exploits/nvc.rar Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478224/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25499 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018636 www.securitytracker.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36373 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com