Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
4.4
Input Validation
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV) 4.0.9.0 does not detect viruses in files with MS-DOS device names in their filenames, which allows local users to bypass virus protection, as demonstrated using aux.vbs and aux.com.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.4
Input Validation
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV) 4.0.9.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) and prevent malicious code from being detected via a file with a long pathname.

First published (updated )

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