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K7Firewall Packet Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

General

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with K7 Computing product and is prone to privilege escalation vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The flaw is due to the function handling IOCTL 0x830020C4 does not validate the size of the output buffer parameter passed in the DeviceIoControl API, which leads to a heap overflow on buffer data initialization.

Affected Software

Affected Software

K7Firewall Packet Driver version 11.0.1.5 and possibly earlier.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to K7Firewall Packet Driver version 14.0.1.16 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)