Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in AIDA64 up to 5.98 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing in the library kerneld.sys. The manipulation leads to initialization. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-7244. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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A vulnerability has been found in AIDA64 up to 5.98 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality in the library kerneld.sys. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a initialization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-665. The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in kerneld.sys in AIDA64 before 5.99. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via IOCTL 0x80112084 and does not properly filter the Model Specific Register (MSR). Allowing arbitrary MSR writes can lead to Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges.

The weakness was released 03/25/2020. This vulnerability was named CVE-2019-7244 since 01/31/2019. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. A single authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 5.99 eliminates this vulnerability.

Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Name

• AIDA64

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5
• 5.6
• 5.7
• 5.8
• 5.9
• 5.10
• 5.11
• 5.12
• 5.13
• 5.14
• 5.15
• 5.16
• 5.17
• 5.18
• 5.19
• 5.20
• 5.21
• 5.22
• 5.23
• 5.24
• 5.25
• 5.26
• 5.27
• 5.28
• 5.29
• 5.30
• 5.31
• 5.32
• 5.33
• 5.34
• 5.35
• 5.36
• 5.37
• 5.38
• 5.39
• 5.40
• 5.41
• 5.42
• 5.43
• 5.44
• 5.45
• 5.46
• 5.47
• 5.48
• 5.49
• 5.50
• 5.51
• 5.52
• 5.53
• 5.54
• 5.55
• 5.56
• 5.57
• 5.58
• 5.59
• 5.60
• 5.61
• 5.62
• 5.63
• 5.64
• 5.65
• 5.66
• 5.67
• 5.68
• 5.69
• 5.70
• 5.71
• 5.72
• 5.73
• 5.74
• 5.75
• 5.76
• 5.77
• 5.78
• 5.79
• 5.80
• 5.81
• 5.82
• 5.83
• 5.84
• 5.85
• 5.86
• 5.87
• 5.88
• 5.89
• 5.90
• 5.91
• 5.92
• 5.93
• 5.94
• 5.95
• 5.96
• 5.97
• 5.98

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