CVE-2017-12840

HIGH

DESLock+ < 4.8.16 - Local Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in DLMFENC.sys via IOCTL 0x0FA4204

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A kernel driver, namely DLMFENC.sys, bundled with the DESLock+ client application 4.8.16 and earlier contains a locally exploitable heap based buffer overflow in the handling of an IOCTL message of type 0x0FA4204. The vulnerability is present due to the kernel driver failing to allocate sufficient memory on the kernel heap to contain a user supplied string as such the string is copied into a buffer of constant size (0x1000-bytes) and thus an overflow condition results. Access to the kernel driver is permitted through an obfuscated interface whereby bytes of user supplied message are "authenticated" via an obfuscation routine employing a linear equation.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 24.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
deslock/deslock\+ < 4.8.16
Published Aug 28, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026