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[ Kaspersky AV/IS 2010 (avp.exe) Denial-of-Service ]
Author: Maksymilian Arciemowicz
http://SecurityReason.com
Date:
Risk: Medium
Affected Software (tested):
Original URL:
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/66
— 0.Description —
Kaspersky Lab is a computer security company, co-founded by Natalia
Kasperskaya and Eugene Kaspersky in 1997, offering anti-virus,
anti-spyware, anti-spam, and anti-intrusion products. Kaspersky Lab is a
privately held company headquartered in Moscow, Russia with regional
offices in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the UK, Poland, Romania,
Sweden, Japan, China, Korea and the USA.
— 1. Kaspersky AV/IS 2010 avp.exe Denial of Service —
The main problem exists in parsing url addresses. If we give a lot of
dots, kaspersky avp.exe proccess, will get 100% of CPU and will block
trafic via browsers.
Relativistic time to return to normal behavior is very long. In
practice, when we give a large number of dots, kaspesky will not return
to normal behavior.
This example will denial access to the browser and other kaspersky
operations
http://lu.cxib.net/…[ .xY where 1024<Y]
It can be exploited remotely by html code. (like: send email)
<img src="http://lu.cxib.net/…[ more dots ]">
The user who executed the code above, will be deprived of the
possibility of browsing and successive reset the kaspersky.
Tested on:
0day (18.08.2009) exploit you can find:
http://securityreason.com/downloads/kaspersky.2010.dos.html
This script, will generate <img> tags with different url lenght to block
kaspersky services.
However we can exploit this issue via html email. The method of attack
is simple. The victim need only refer to a faulty address.
— 2. Greets —
sp3x Infospec Chujwamwdupe p_e_a pi3
— 3. Contact —
Author: SecurityReason.com [ Maksymilian Arciemowicz ]
Email: cxib {a.t] securityreason [d0t} com
GPG: http://securityreason.com/key/Arciemowicz.Maksymilian.gpg
http://securityreason.com/
http://securityreason.pl/
Best Regards,
pub 1024D/A6986BD6 2008-08-22
uid Maksymilian Arciemowicz (cxib)
<[email protected]>
sub 4096g/0889FA9A 2008-08-22
http://securityreason.com
http://securityreason.com/key/Arciemowicz.Maksymilian.gpg
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