What is CVE-2017-8339?

CVE-2017-8339 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Watchguard Panda Antivirus, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-04-30.

How severe is CVE-2017-8339?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Watchguard Panda Antivirus

CVE-2017-8339

PSKMAD.sys in Panda Free Antivirus 18.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BSoD) via a crafted DeviceIoControl request to \\.\PSMEMDriver.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.004 (36.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Watchguard Panda_antivirus — versions 18.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link)
nvd@nist.gov (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8339?: CVE-2017-8339 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Watchguard Panda Antivirus, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-04-30.
How severe is CVE-2017-8339?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.