CVE-2008-5731 Information

Description

The PGPwded device driver (aka PGPwded.sys) in PGP Corporation PGP Desktop 9.0.6 build 6060 and 9.9.0 build 397 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) and possibly gain privileges via a certain METHOD_BUFFERED IOCTL request that overwrites portions of memory related to a \Driver Collapse.\ NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/50914 http://secunia.com/advisories/33310 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4811 http://www.evilfingers.com/advisory/PGPDesktop_9_0_6_Denial_Of_Service.php http://www.evilfingers.com/advisory/PGPDesktop_9_0_6_Denial_Of_Service_POC.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499572/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32991 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021493 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7556