CVE-2003-1444

CVE-2003-1444 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Kaspersky Antivirus (KAV) 4.0.9.0. A local attacker can exploit this flaw by submitting a file with an excessively long pathname, leading to high CPU consumption or a system crash, effectively preventing the antivirus from detecting malicious code. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.4, indicating a medium severity, and requires local access with medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has garnered significant community discussion.