CVE-2008-5724 (GCVE-0-2008-5724)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-26 17:08 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:04
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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Date Public ?
2008-12-18 00:00
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