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CVE-2018-15499

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

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.

Affected products

• Gearsoftware Gearaspiwdm: 2.2.5.0

References

• https://downwithup.github.io/CVEPosts.html
• https://github.com/DownWithUp/CVE-2018-15499
• https://downwithup.github.io/CVEPosts.html
• https://github.com/DownWithUp/CVE-2018-15499

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