CVE-2008-5731

Summary

CVECVE-2008-5731
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-12-26 17:30:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-11 20:56:00 UTC
DescriptionThe PGPwded device driver (aka PGPwded.sys) in PGP Corporation PGP Desktop 9.0.6 build 6060 and 9.9.0 build 397 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) and possibly gain privileges via a certain METHOD_BUFFERED IOCTL request that overwrites portions of memory, related to a "Driver Collapse." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pgp Desktop 9.0.6 All All All
Application Pgp Desktop 9.9.0 All All All
Application Pgp Desktop 9.0.6 All All All
Application Pgp Desktop 9.9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PGP Desktop 'PGPwded.sys' Local Code Execution Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Exploit
PGP Desktop PGPwded.sys Driver Denial of Service - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
PGP Desktop IOCTL Validation Flaw Lets Local Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
EvilFingers - PGP Desktop 9.0.6 Denial Of Service Vulnerability. MISC www.evilfingers.com
50914 OSVDB osvdb.org
404 Page Not Found MISC www.evilfingers.com Exploit
PGP Desktop 9.0.6 Denial Of Service - CXSecurity.com SREASON securityreason.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
PGP Desktop 9.0.6 (PGPwded.sys) Local Denial of Service Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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