Vulnerability in Symantec Client Security
CVE-2006-4855
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (69.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 69.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Symantec Client Security — versions 1.0, 1.0.0_b8.01.9378, 1.0.1
- Symantec Host Ids
- Symantec Norton Antivirus — versions 2.1, 8.0, 8.0.1
- Symantec Norton Internet Security — versions 2003, 2004, 2005
- Symantec Norton Personal Firewall — versions 2003, 2004, 2005
- Symantec Norton System Works — versions 2003_professional_edition, 2004, 2004_professional_edition
- Symantec Pcanywhere — versions 11.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/21938 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446111/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/1591 (third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Norton-Insufficient-validation-of-SymEvent-dri… (Vendor Advisory)