Kernel Pool Overflow Vulnerability in Sophos SurfRight HitmanPro

Kernel Pool Overflow Vulnerability in Sophos SurfRight HitmanPro

CVE-2017-6008 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

A kernel pool overflow in the driver hitmanpro37.sys in Sophos SurfRight HitmanPro before 3.7.20 Build 286 (included in the HitmanPro.Alert solution and Sophos Clean) allows local users to escalate privileges via a malformed IOCTL call.

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