CVE-2018-3971

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Oct 25, 2018
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Jan 2, 2018

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Description

An exploitable arbitrary write vulnerability exists in the 0x2222CC IOCTL handler functionality of Sophos HitmanPro.Alert 3.7.6.744. A specially crafted IRP request can cause the driver to write data under controlled by an attacker address, resulting in memory corruption. An attacker can send IRP request to trigger this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.09.3 CriticalCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Htalos

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
SophosTalos
  • Sophos HitmanPro.Alert - hmpalert.sys 3.7.6.744 - Windows 7 x86Affected

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