CVE-2009-2966

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 6.4%

from disclosure to weapon3 days

Published on NVDAug 25

1st PoC+3d

exploitation probability

6.4%top 7% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

avp.exe in Kaspersky Internet Security 9.0.0.459 and Anti-Virus 9.0.0.463 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and network connectivity loss) via an HTTP URL request that contains a large number of dot "." characters.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/9537

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References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-08/0252.html http://secunia.com/advisories/36405 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/66 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52571 http://www.h-online.com/security/Kaspersky-confirm-and-close-DoS-vulnerability--/news/114077 http://www.osvdb.org/57173 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36084 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022754 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022755