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CVE-2018-8060 Details

Description

HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver version 8.98 and lower allows an unprivileged user to send an IOCTL to the device driver. If input and/or output buffer pointers are NULL or if these buffers' data are invalid, a NULL/invalid pointer access occurs, resulting in a Windows kernel panic aka Blue Screen. This affects IOCTLs higher than 0x85FE2600 with the HWiNFO32 symbolic device name.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://github.com/otavioarj/SIOCtl CVEExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/otavioarj/SIOCtl [email protected]ExploitThird Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
hwinfo amd64 kernel driver
<= 8.98

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:hwinfo:amd64_kernel_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

4 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-8060
NVD Published Date:
May 10, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2018-8060 Details - Not Deferred