CVE-2016-4329

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

A local denial of service vulnerability exists in window broadcast message handling functionality of Kaspersky Anti-Virus software. Sending certain unhandled window messages, an attacker can cause application termination and in the same way bypass KAV self-protection mechanism.

Affected products

Kaspersky Anti-Virus: 16.0.0.614
Kaspersky Internet Security: 16.0.0.614
Kaspersky Total Security: 16.0.0.614

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92771
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0175/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92771/info
https://support.kaspersky.com/vulnerability.aspx?el=12430#010916
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92771
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0175/

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