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CVE-2006-3074

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-06-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

klif.sys in Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 and 7.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) 6.0 and 7.0, KAV 6.0 for Windows Workstations, and KAV 6.0 for Windows Servers does not validate certain parameters to the (1) NtCreateKey, (2) NtCreateProcess, (3) NtCreateProcessEx, (4) NtCreateSection, (5) NtCreateSymbolicLinkObject, (6) NtCreateThread, (7) NtDeleteValueKey, (8) NtLoadKey2, (9) NtOpenKey, (10) NtOpenProcess, (11) NtOpenSection, and (12) NtQueryValueKey hooked system calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot) via an invalid parameter, as demonstrated by the ClientId parameter to NtOpenProcess.

Affected products

• Kaspersky Anti-Virus: 6.0, 7.0
• Kaspersky Internet Security: 6.0, 7.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/20629
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25603
• http://uninformed.org/index.cgi?v=4&a=4&p=4
• http://uninformed.org/index.cgi?v=4&a=4&p=7
• http://www.kaspersky.com/technews?id=203038695
• http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Kaspersky-Multiple-insufficient-argument-validation-of-hooked-SSDT-functions.php
• http://www.rootkit.com/board.php?did=edge726&closed=0&lastx=15
• http://www.rootkit.com/newsread.php?newsid=726
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471453/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18341
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24491
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018257

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