CVE-2011-3987 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.9 Published Updated

Local attackers can crash the system by sending invalid DeviceIoControl requests to the DAEMON Tools driver.

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-2011-3987?

CVE-2011-3987 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Nov 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

dtsoftbus01.sys in DAEMON Tools Lite before 4.41.3, Pro Standard before 4.41.0315, and Pro Advanced before 4.41.0315 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an invalid DeviceIoControl request to \\.\dtsoftbusctl.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3987?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Daemon-Tools Daemon Tools.

How do I fix CVE-2011-3987?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-3987 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-2011-3987 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3987 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-2whx-965j-8c7g.

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