National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1495

Overview

The \Device\SymEvent driver in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.1.7, and possibly other products using symevent.sys 12.0.0.20, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via invalid data, as demonstrated by calling DeviceIoControl to send the data, a reintroduction of CVE-2006-4855.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: BID

Name: 22961

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22961

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070314 SymEvent Driver Local Access System Denial of Service

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/462792/100/0/threaded

External Source: SREASON

Name: 2445

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2445