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CVE-2007-5043

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0.0.125 does not properly validate certain parameters to System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function handlers, which allows local users to (1) cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via the NtCreateSection kernel SSDT hook or (2) cause a denial of service (avp.exe service outage) via the NtLoadDriver kernel SSDT hook. NOTE: this issue may partially overlap CVE-2006-3074.

Affected products

• Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Internet Security: 7.0.0.125

References

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3161
• http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
• http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threaded
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3161
• http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
• http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threaded

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