CVE-2016-4307 Denial of service in Internet Security

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A local attacker can cause a system denial of service by triggering an access violation in the Kaspersky KL1 kernel driver via a crafted IOCTL signal.

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-2016-4307?

CVE-2016-4307 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Kaspersky Internet Security, published on 6 Jan 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4307?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Kaspersky Internet Security.

How do I fix CVE-2016-4307?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-4307 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-2016-4307 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4307 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-278p-2ghg-cvch.

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