CVE-2018-6779 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Jiangmin Antivirus 16.0.0.100. The flaw resides in the KSysCall.sys driver, which fails to validate input from IOCtl 0x9A008240, allowing a local attacker to trigger a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) or potentially other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with low attack complexity and user privileges, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
16.0.0.100CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:jiangmin:antivirus:16.0.0.100:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.