CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5724

7.2 HIGH Published 2008-12-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-12-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The Personal Firewall driver (aka epfw.sys) 3.0.672.0 and earlier in ESET Smart Security 3.0.672 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted IRP in a certain METHOD_NEITHER IOCTL request to \Device\Epfw that overwrites portions of memory.

Affected configurations

• eset smart security (<= 3.0.672) • eset smart security 3.0.551 • eset smart security 3.0.560 • eset smart security 3.0.563 • eset smart security 3.0.621 • eset smart security 3.0.642 • eset smart security 3.0.650 • eset smart security 3.0.657 • eset smart security 3.0.667 • eset smart security 3.0.669

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-781 Improper Address Validation in IOCTL with METHOD_NEITHER I/O Control Code weakness

References