CVE-2008-0324 Memory corruption in n/a

Medium 4.9 Published Updated

Local attackers can crash the Cisco VPN Client driver by sending a malformed IOCTL request, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2008-0324?

CVE-2008-0324 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Jan 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Cisco Systems VPN Client IPSec Driver (CVPNDRVA.sys) 5.0.02.0090 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by calling the 0x80002038 IOCTL with a small size value, which triggers memory corruption.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-0324?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Vpn Client.

How do I fix CVE-2008-0324?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-0324 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2008-0324 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-0324 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-x327-3g78-w8g3.

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