PT-2007-2889 · Symantec · Symevent.Sys+1

Published 2007-03-16 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-1495

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Symantec Norton Personal Firewall version 9.1.1.7 Symantec products using symevent.sys version 12.0.0.20

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash, by sending invalid data. This can be achieved by calling DeviceIoControl to send the data.

Recommendations For Symantec Norton Personal Firewall version 9.1.1.7, update to a version that does not use the vulnerable symevent.sys driver. For Symantec products using symevent.sys version 12.0.0.20, avoid using the DeviceIoControl function to send invalid data until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-1495

Affected Products

Symantec Norton Personal Firewall

Symevent.Sys

References · 4

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/22961 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1495 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/462792/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2445 · Note