PT-2018-18560 · Microsoft · Windows 7+2

Published 2018-08-14 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-8342

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2

Description An elevation of privilege issue exists due to the failure of ndis.sys to check the length of a buffer before copying memory to it. This allows attackers to affect the system.

Recommendations For Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

LPE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-120

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-8342

Affected Products

Windows

Windows 7

Windows Server 2008 R2

References · 7

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8342 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8342 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8342 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-8342 · Vendor Advisory
• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/advisory/CVE-2018-8342 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1041466 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/104975 · Note