CVE-2008-3636
Integer overflow in the IopfCompleteRequest API in the kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, and Vista allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for GEARAspiWDM.sys 2.0.7.5 in Gear Software CD DVD Filter driver before 4.001.7, as used in other products including Apple iTunes and multiple Symantec and Norton products, which allows local users to gain privileges via repeated IoAttachDevice IOCTL calls to \\.\GEARAspiWDMDevice in this GEARAspiWDM.sys. However, the root cause is the integer overflow in the API call itself.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (37th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-3622)
- Published
- September 11, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-3622 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
- apple / itunes
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00001.html
- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.10.07a.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020839
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3025
- http://www.gearsoftware.com/support/GEARAspi%20Security%20Information.pdf
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/146896(US Government Resource)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497131/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31089(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020997
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020998
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020999
- http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.10.07a.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2526
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2769
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2770
- http://www.wintercore.com/advisories/advisory_W021008.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6035
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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