CVE-2006-4855 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can crash the system by sending invalid data to the SymEvent driver in various Symantec security products.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-4855?
CVE-2006-4855 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Symantec Norton Antivirus, published on 19 Sep 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The \Device\SymEvent driver in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.0.33, and other versions of Norton Personal Firewall, Internet Security, AntiVirus, SystemWorks, Symantec Client Security SCS 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, and 3.1, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition SAVCE 8.x, 9.x, 10.0, and 10.1, Symantec pcAnywhere 11.5 only, and Symantec Host, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via invalid data, as demonstrated by calling DeviceIoControl to send the data.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-4855?
It affects 7 products.
Products include Symantec Client Security, Symantec Host Ids, Symantec Norton Antivirus, Symantec Norton Internet Security, Symantec Norton Personal Firewall, Symantec Norton System Works and 1 more.
How do I fix CVE-2006-4855?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-4855 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-4855 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-4855 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Norton Antivirus
Sources
Also known as GHSA-76wv-4mx9-c373.