CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-9151

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 30, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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A NULL pointer dereference bug in the function ObReferenceObjectByHandle in the Kingsoft Internet Security 9+ kernel driver KWatch3.sys allows local non-privileged users to crash the system via IOCTL 0x80030030.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Internet_security_9_plusKingsoft2010.06.23.247 (including)2010.06.23.247 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References