# CVE-2018-8061: HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver version 8.98 and lower allows an unprivileged user to send IOCTL 0x85FE2608 to the device driver with the HWiNFO3

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-05-10 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver version 8.98 and lower allows an unprivileged user to send IOCTL 0x85FE2608 to the device driver with the HWiNFO32 symbolic device name, resulting in direct physical memory read or write.

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/otavioarj/SIOCtl

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