CVE-2017-6008: sophos hitmanpro

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-6008 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in sophos hitmanpro. EPSS estimates a 1.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 4 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 13-09-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A kernel pool overflow in the driver hitmanpro37.sys in Sophos SurfRight HitmanPro before 3.7.20 Build 286 (included in the HitmanPro.Alert solution and Sophos Clean) allows local users to escalate privileges via a malformed IOCTL call.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.