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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2023-1678

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in DriverGenius 9.70.0.346. This affects the function 0x9C40A0D8/0x9C40A0DC/0x9C40A0E0 in the library mydrivers64.sys of the component IOCTL Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-224235.

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  • LOCAL
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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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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Advisory Timeline

  • Published