CVE-2014-8956 (GCVE-0-2014-8956)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-12 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:33
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Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the K7Sentry.sys kernel mode driver (aka K7AV Sentry Device Driver) before 12.8.0.119, as used in multiple K7 Computing products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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Date Public
2014-12-05 00:00
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