First published: Fri Jan 06 2017(Updated: )
A denial of service vulnerability exists in the IOCTL handling functionality of Kaspersky Internet Security KL1 driver. A specially crafted IOCTL signal can cause an access violation in KL1 kernel driver resulting in local system denial of service. An attacker can run a program from user-mode to trigger this vulnerability.
Credit: cret@cert.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 | =16.0.0 |
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CVE-2016-4307 has a severity rating that indicates it could lead to a denial of service condition in Kaspersky Internet Security.
To fix CVE-2016-4307, users should update to a patched version of Kaspersky Internet Security that addresses this vulnerability.
CVE-2016-4307 can cause an access violation in the KL1 kernel driver, leading to a local system denial of service.
CVE-2016-4307 affects users of Kaspersky Internet Security version 16.0.0.
CVE-2016-4307 requires local access to exploit, as an attacker must run a program from user-mode.