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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2014-7136

High
7.2/10

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the K7FWFilt.sys kernel mode driver (aka K7Firewall Packet Driver) before 14.0.1.16, as used in multiple K7 Computing products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via a crafted parameter in a DeviceIoControl API call.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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  • Published