CVE-2017-6008 in SurfRight HitmanPro

Summary

A kernel pool overflow in the driver hitmanpro37.sys in Sophos SurfRight HitmanPro before 3.7.20 Build 286 (included in the HitmanPro.Alert solution and Sophos Clean) allows local users to escalate privileges via a malformed IOCTL call.

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• Reservation: 02/15/2017
• Disclosure: 09/13/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-106551 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 6.5
• EPSS: 0.02775
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6008
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6008
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-6008/