CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-1515

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The dwall.sys driver in SoftSphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24 allows local users to write data to arbitrary memory locations, potentially gaining privileges.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow local users to escalate privileges, posing a significant security risk to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to the latest version of SoftSphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The dwall.sys driver in SoftSphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24 allows local users to write data to arbitrary memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a crafted 0x00222000, 0x00222004, 0x00222008, 0x0022200c, or 0x00222010 IOCTL call.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS