CVE-2018-10828 Denial of service in n/a
A local attacker can cause a denial of service by writing invalid pointers to a shared memory section in the Alps Pointing-device 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-2018-10828?
CVE-2018-10828 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An issue was discovered in Alps Pointing-device Driver 10.1.101.207. ApMsgFwd.exe allows the current user to map and write to the "ApMsgFwd File Mapping Object" section. ApMsgFwd.exe uses the data written to this section as arguments to functions. This causes a denial of service condition when invalid pointers are written to the mapped section. This driver has been used with Dell, ThinkPad, and VAIO devices.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10828?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Alps Pointing-Device Driver.
How do I fix CVE-2018-10828?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-10828 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-2018-10828 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10828 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vm26-wqqf-xxff.