CVE-2018-5085 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-5085?

CVE-2018-5085 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Jan 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In K7 AntiVirus 15.1.0306, the driver file (K7FWHlpr.sys) allows local users to cause a denial of service (BSOD) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of not validating input values from IOCtl 0x83002124.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5085?

It affects 1 product.

Products include K7computing Antivirus.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5085?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-5085 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-2018-5085 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5085 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2017-17699 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-17700 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-17701 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-17464 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-17465 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5gqr-p692-jw68.