CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-1213
5.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-02-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• sophos scanning engine (<= 3.48)
• sophos sophos anti-virus 10.0.11
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://osvdb.org/102762 osvdb.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1 seclists.org
- http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/ www.portcullis-security.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx www.sophos.com
- http://osvdb.org/102762 osvdb.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1 seclists.org
- http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/ www.portcullis-security.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx www.sophos.com