CVE-2018-15499

MEDIUM 4.7CVE-2018-15499 · Published 24/08/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-15499 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.7) vulnerability affecting gearaspiwdm (gearsoftware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.40%, higher than 34.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gearaspiwdm gearsoftware	`= 2.2.5.0`	No fix yet

Description

GEAR Software products that include GEARAspiWDM.sys, 2.2.5.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service (Race Condition and BSoD on Windows) by not checking that user-mode memory is available right before writing to it. A check is only performed at the beginning of a long subroutine.

References

downwithup.github.io/CVEPosts.html · Exploit
DownWithUp/CVE-2018-15499 · Exploit

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