CVE-2008-1141 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.9 Published 4 Mar 2008 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local attackers can cause kernel memory exhaustion and denial of service in DESlock+ via crafted IOCTL requests.

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-2008-1141?

CVE-2008-1141 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 4 Mar 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in DLMFENC.sys 1.0.0.26 in DESlock+ 3.2.6 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel memory consumption) via a series of DLMFENC_IOCTL requests to \\.\DLKPFSD_Device that allocate "link list structures."

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1141?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Deslock Deslock.

How do I fix CVE-2008-1141?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1141 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-1141 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-1141 exists.

Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-9ffm-pv78-gv3f.