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CVE-2014-1213

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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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published2/10/2014

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

sophos:scanning_enginesophos:sophos_anti-virus

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

References

http://osvdb.org/102762(cve@mitre.org)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx(cve@mitre.org)

http://osvdb.org/102762(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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