CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-17699

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 15, 2017 | Modified: Dec 20, 2017

CVSS 3.x

9.8

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

7.5 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17699
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

K7Sentry.sys 15.1.0.59 in K7 Antivirus 15.1.0309 has a NULL pointer dereference via a 0x950025ac DeviceIoControl request.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Antivirus	K7computing	15.1.0309 (including)	15.1.0309 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://github.com/mmmxny/K7-Antivirus/tree/master/cve3

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