Unspecified vulnerability in the kmxfw.sys driver in CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) r8, as used in CA Internet Security…

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the kmxfw.sys driver in CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) r8, as used in CA Internet Security Suite and Personal Firewall, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors, related to "insufficient validation."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• ADV-2008-2339 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 1020662 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=36560 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1020661 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• ca-kmxfw-dos(44393) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 20080812 CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System SDK kmxfw.sys Multiple Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 31434 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 30651 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1020663 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 09:28 UTC.