CVE-2008-1738 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can crash the system by passing an invalid pointer to a hooked system service in Rising Antivirus.
- 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-2008-1738?
CVE-2008-1738 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Apr 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Rising Antivirus 2008 before 20.38.20 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an invalid pointer to the _CLIENT_ID structure in a call to the NtOpenProcess hooked System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1738?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Rising-Global Rising Antivirus.
How do I fix CVE-2008-1738?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1738 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-2008-1738 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1738 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qqjh-7v47-6j3v.