CVE-2018-3970 (GCVE-0-2018-3970)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-25 18:00
Modified
2024-09-17 00:50
Severity ?
4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • memory disclosure
Summary
An exploitable memory disclosure vulnerability exists in the 0x222000 IOCTL handler functionality of Sophos HitmanPro.Alert 3.7.6.744. A specially crafted IRP request can cause the driver to return uninitialized memory, resulting in kernel memory disclosure. An attacker can send an IRP request to trigger this vulnerability.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Talos Sophos Version: Sophos Hitmanro.Alert - hmpalert.sys 3.7.6.744
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