Buffer overflow in Norman Virus Control
CVE-2007-4648
The nvcoaft51 driver in Norman Virus Control (NVC) 5.82 uses weak permissions (unrestricted write access) for the NvcOa device, which allows local users to gain privileges by (1) triggering a buffer overflow in a kernel pool via a string argument to ioctl 0xBF67201C; or by (2) sending a crafted KEVENT structure through ioctl 0xBF672028 to overwrite arbitrary memory locations.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.009 (56.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Norman Norman_virus_control — versions 5.82
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)