Kaspersky Anti-Virus 4.61.0/7.0.0.125/9.0.16160.0 ELF File access control

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus 4.61.0/7.0.0.125/9.0.16160.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component ELF File Handler. Performing a manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2012-1442. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus 4.61.0/7.0.0.125/9.0.16160.0 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown functionality of the component ELF File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The ELF file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, eSafe 7.0.17.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, and Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a modified class field. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different ELF parser implementations.

The weakness was shared 03/19/2012 by Suman Jana and Vitaly Shmatikov as not defined mailinglist post (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at seclists.org. The public release happened without involvement of Kaspersky. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2012-1442 since 02/29/2012. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed by Suman Jana / Vitaly Shmatikov and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at seclists.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 52598†) and OSVDB (80427†). The entries VDB-4914, VDB-4915, VDB-4916 and VDB-4917 are related to this item. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Type

• Anti-Malware Software

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• Kaspersky

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• Anti-Virus

Version

• 4.61.0
• 7.0.0.125
• 9.0.16160.0

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kaspersky.com/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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