CVE-2017-15921

high
Published 2017-10-30 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.5

Description

In Watchdog Anti-Malware 2.74.186.150 and Online Security Pro 2.74.186.150, the zam32.sys driver contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that gets triggered when sending an operation to ioctl 0x80002010. This is due to the input buffer being NULL or the input buffer size being 0 as they are not validated.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-43058 dos windows
Parvez Anwar ยท 2017-10-26

Watchdog Development Anti-Malware / Online Security Pro - NULL Pointer Dereference

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
watchdogdevelopmentanti-malware2.74.186.150
watchdogdevelopmentonline_security_pro2.74.186.150

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.