CVE-2018-5713 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause a Blue Screen of Death in Malwarefox Anti-Malware via improper input validation in the 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-2018-5713?
CVE-2018-5713 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Jan 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In Malwarefox Anti-Malware 2.72.169, the driver file (zam64.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 0x80002010.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5713?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Malwarefox Anti-Malware.
How do I fix CVE-2018-5713?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-5713 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-2018-5713 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5713 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jpfc-428h-vcrr.