CVE-2023-1679
Published: 28 March 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-1679 is a medium-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Drivergenius Drivergenius. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 39.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-23907
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in DriverGenius 9.70.0.346. This vulnerability affects the function 0x9C406104/0x9C40A108 in the library mydrivers64.sys of the component IOCTL Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit…
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has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-224236.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.