National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2926
Original release date:08/12/2008
Last revised:09/11/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The kmxfw.sys driver in CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) r8, as used in CA Internet Security Suite and Personal Firewall, does not properly verify IOCTL requests, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted request.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31434
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: ca-kmxfw-privilege-escalation(44392)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020660
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020659
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020658
External Source: BID
Name: 30651
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080812 CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System SDK kmxfw.sys Multiple Vulnerabilities
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2339
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=36559
