CVE-2008-1737

high

Description

Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0.5, and other 7.x versions, when Runtime Behavioural Analysis is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot with the product disabled) and possibly gain privileges via a zero value in a certain length field in the ObjectAttributes argument to the NtCreateKey hooked System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42083

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1381

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/37810.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28743

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491405/100/0/threaded

http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2249

http://securitytracker.com/id?1019945

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3838

http://secunia.com/advisories/29996

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-04-30

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00057