Last November I reported a kernel vulnerability to CERT/CC for their help in coordinating the disclosure as it impacted dozens of vendors including Google Drive File Stream (GDFS). The vulnerability was a stack-based buffer overflow in Dokany’s kernel mode file system driver and has been assigned cve id of CVE-2018-5410. With Dokany you can create…

A couple of months ago I discovered 9 kernel vulnerabilities a security product called STOPzilla AntiMalware. It’s been over a month with no response from the vendor so I’m going public with this one. All of the vulnerabilities stem from output buffer address not being validated apart from ioctl 80002028 where the size of the…

A kernel vulnerability exists in an antivirus product called “System Shield AntiVirus and AntiSpyware” by Iolo Technologies. This is an arbitrary memory overwrite vulnerability due to the inputted buffer not being validated and has been assigned a CVE ID of CVE-2018-5701. The product version of “System Shield AntiVirus and AntiSpyware” tested on is 5.0.0.136 and…

Here is a list of the 9 kernel vulnerabilities I discovered over a month ago in an antivirus product called IKARUS anti.virus which has finally been fixed. Most of the vulnerabilities were due to the inputted output buffer address (Irp->UserBuffer) being saved on the stack which is later used without being validated when using as…

Last month I started hunting for kernel bugs again and it wasn’t too long before I found a nice collection of bugs in an antivirus product called Vir.IT eXplorer. In total 6 kernel vulnerabilities were discovered. All of the vulnerabilities were due to the inputted buffer not being validated. The below table lists the ioctls,…