HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel Driver up to 8.98 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel Driver up to 8.98. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-8061. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel Driver up to 8.98 (Hardware Driver Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver version 8.98 and lower allows an unprivileged user to send IOCTL 0x85FE2608 to the device driver with the HWiNFO32 symbolic device name, resulting in direct physical memory read or write.

The bug was discovered 03/11/2018. The weakness was disclosed 05/10/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-8061 since 03/11/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 59 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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03/11/2018 🔍
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05/09/2018 +58 days 🔍
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02/04/2020 +635 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2018-8061 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-8061
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-117557
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/10/2018 11:49
Updated: 02/04/2020 08:15
Changes: 05/10/2018 11:49 (57), 02/04/2020 08:15 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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