CVE-2016-9038

HIGH 7.8CVE-2016-9038 · Published 24/04/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-9038 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting invincea-x (sophos).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.30%, higher than 23.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
invincea-x sophos	`= 6.1.3-24058`	No fix yet

Description

An exploitable double fetch vulnerability exists in the SboxDrv.sys driver functionality of Invincea-X 6.1.3-24058. A specially crafted input buffer and race condition can result in kernel memory corruption, which could result in privilege escalation. An attacker needs to execute a special application locally to trigger this vulnerability.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/99360 · Third Party Advisory
talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0256 · Exploit

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