CVE-2018-8060

Medium

Description

HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver version 8.98 and lower allows an unprivileged user to send an IOCTL to the device driver. If input and/or output buffer pointers are NULL or if these buffers' data are invalid, a NULL/invalid pointer access occurs, resulting in a Windows kernel panic aka Blue Screen. This affects IOCTLs higher than 0x85FE2600 with the HWiNFO32 symbolic device name.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductHwinfo Amd64 Kernel Driver
PublishedMay 10, 2018
First seenMay 10, 2018

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
hwinfo amd64_kernel_driverv ≤ 8.98—

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