CVE-2018-8061

Published: May 10, 2018Modified: Jun 17, 2026

7.1

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 5.2

Source: NVD

Description

HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver version 8.98 and lower allows an unprivileged user to send IOCTL 0x85FE2608 to the device driver with the HWiNFO32 symbolic device name, resulting in direct physical memory read or write.

Affected (1)

Products: Hwinfo: Amd64 Kernel Driver

Hwinfo

1 product

Amd64 Kernel Driver

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Hwinfo Amd64 Kernel Driver	Up to 8.98

Related CWEs

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The 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.

References (2)

https://github.com/otavioarj/SIOCtl

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/otavioarj/SIOCtl

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

ExploitThird Party Advisory

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