Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Device IO Control in iphlpapi.dll in Microsoft Windows Vista Gold and SP1 allows local users in…

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Device IO Control in iphlpapi.dll in Microsoft Windows Vista Gold and SP1 allows local users in the Network Configuration Operator group to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large invalid PrefixLength to the CreateIpForwardEntry2 method, as demonstrated by a "route add" command. NOTE: this issue might not cross privilege boundaries.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 20081125 Re: Microsoft VISTA TCP/IP stack buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• win-vista-iphlpapi-bo(46742) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 20081119 Microsoft VISTA TCP/IP stack buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 32791 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1021245 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 4646 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 32357 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:49 UTC.