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CVE-2006-4855

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The \Device\SymEvent driver in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.0.33, and other versions of Norton Personal Firewall, Internet Security, AntiVirus, SystemWorks, Symantec Client Security SCS 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, and 3.1, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition SAVCE 8.x, 9.x, 10.0, and 10.1, Symantec pcAnywhere 11.5 only, and Symantec Host, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via invalid data, as demonstrated by calling DeviceIoControl to send the data.

Affected products

• Symantec Client Security: 1.0, 1.0.0_b8.01.9378, 1.0.1, 1.0.1_build_8.01.425a-mr1, 1.0.1_build_8.01.429c-mr2, 1.0.1_build_8.01.434-mr3 (+27)
• Symantec Host Ids: all versions
• Symantec Norton Antivirus: 2.1, 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.1.425a, 8.0.1.425c, 8.0.1.501 (+41)
• Symantec Norton Internet Security: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
• Symantec Norton Personal Firewall: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
• Symantec Norton System Works: 2003_professional_edition, 2004, 2004_professional_edition, 2005, 2005_premier, 2006
• Symantec Pcanywhere: 11.5

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/21938
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1591
• http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.09.20a.html
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016889
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016892
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016893
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016894
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016895
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016896
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016897
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016898
• http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Norton-Insufficient-validation-of-SymEvent-driver-input-buffer.php

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