Description
avp.exe in Kaspersky Internet Security 9.0.0.459 and Anti-Virus 9.0.0.463 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and network connectivity loss) via an HTTP URL request that contains a large number of dot "." characters.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Kaspersky 2010 - Remote Memory Corruption / Denial of Service (PoC) EDB-9537 · dos · Aug 28, 2009 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 36405 third-party-advisory
- 57173 vdb-entry
- 20090819 Kaspersky AV/IS 2010 (avp.exe) Denial-of-Service third-party-advisory
- 36084 vdb-entry
- 1022754 vdb-entry
- 1022755 vdb-entry
- 20090818 Kaspersky AV/IS 2010 (avp.exe) Denial-of-Service mailing-list
- http://www.h-online.com/security/Kaspersky-confirm-and-close-DoS-vulnerability--/news/114077
- kaspersky-antivirus-internet-http-dos(52571) vdb-entry