CVE-2008-1737

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Sophos Anti-Virus: 7.0.5

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29996
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3838
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019945
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2249
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491405/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28743
http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/37810.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1381
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42083
http://secunia.com/advisories/29996
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3838
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019945

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