National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5724
Original release date:12/26/2008
Last revised:02/18/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 32917
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.ntinternals.org/ntiadv0807/ntiadv0807.html
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3456
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.eset.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4113&Itemid=5
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33210
Type: Advisory