Kaspersky Anti-Virus Unspecified Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Unspecified Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Kaspersky Anti-Virus is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. This is due to a failure in the application to handle unspecified files.

Attackers could cause the application to consume excessive CPU and memory resources, resulting in a denial of service.

Versions 5.0.5 and 5.5.3 of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for UNIX are vulnerable to this issue; other versions and platforms may also be affected.

Further details about this vulnerability are currently unavailable. This BID will be updated as more information is disclosed.

Note that the vendor cannot reproduce this issue.