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CVE-2019-3972 (GCVE-0-2019-3972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-07-17 20:40 – Updated: 2024-08-04 19:26
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Summary
Comodo Antivirus versions 12.0.0.6810 and below are vulnerable to Denial of Service affecting CmdAgent.exe via an unprotected section object "<GUID>_CisSharedMemBuff". This section object is exposed by CmdAgent and contains a SharedMemoryDictionary object, which allows a low privileged process to modify the object data causing CmdAgent.exe to crash.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Denial of Service
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Comodo Antivirus Affected: Versions 12.0.0.6810 and below
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