# CVE-2014-1213: Sophos Anti-Virus engine (SAVi) before 3.50.1, as used in VDL 4.97G 9.7.x before 9.7.9, 10.0.x before 10.0.11, and 10.3.x before 10.3.1 does

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2014-02-10 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Sophos Anti-Virus engine (SAVi) before 3.50.1, as used in VDL 4.97G 9.7.x before 9.7.9, 10.0.x before 10.0.11, and 10.3.x before 10.3.1 does not set an ACL for certain global and session objects, which allows local users to bypass anti-virus protection, cause a denial of service (resource consumption, CPU consumption, and eventual crash) or spoof "ready for update" messages by performing certain operations on mutexes or events including (1) DataUpdateRequest, (2) MmfMutexSAV-****, (3) MmfMutexSAV-Info, (4) ReadyForUpdateSAV-****, (5) ReadyForUpdateSAV-Info, (6) SAV-****, (7) SAV-Info, (8) StateChange, (9) SuspendedSAV-****, (10) SuspendedSAV-Info, (11) UpdateComplete, (12) UpdateMutex, (13) UpdateRequest, or (14) SophosALMonSessionInstance, as demonstrated by triggering a ReadyForUpdateSAV event and modifying the UpdateComplete, UpdateMutex, and UpdateRequest objects.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1
- http://osvdb.org/102762
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713
- http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286

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