CVE-2006-4855
The \Device\SymEvent driver in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.0.33, and other versions of Norton Personal Firewall, Internet…
- 4.9MediumCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 29% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The \Device\SymEvent driver in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.0.33, and other versions of Norton Personal Firewall, Internet Security, AntiVirus, SystemWorks, Symantec Client Security SCS 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, and 3.1, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition SAVCE 8.x, 9.x, 10.0, and 10.1, Symantec pcAnywhere 11.5 only, and Symantec Host, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via invalid data, as demonstrated by calling DeviceIoControl to send the data.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Symantec (Multiple Products) - 'SymEvent' Driver Local Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 28588dos, windowspublished 15 Sept 2006Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
16
- 1016892 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 21938 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1016893 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1016895 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1016889 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20060915 Symantec Norton Insufficient validation of 'SymEvent' driver input buffer (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1016897 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1591 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 1016896 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Norton-Insufficient-validation-of-SymEvent-driver-input-buffer.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20051 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.09.20a.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3636 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- symantec-firewall-symevent-dos(28960) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1016894 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1016898 (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-4842 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-4855)Record last updated .