CVE-2017-17049 — TG Soft Vir

TG Soft Vir.IT eXplorer Lite 8.5.42 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a NULL value in a 0x82730010 DeviceIoControl request to \\.\Viragtlt.

01What is this vulnerability?

TG Soft Vir.IT eXplorer Lite 8.5.42 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a NULL value in a 0x82730010 DeviceIoControl request to \\.\Viragtlt.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2017-11-29T03:29:00.190
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/k0keoyo/Vir.IT-explorer-Anti-Virus-Null-Pointer-Reference-PoC…
• github.com — https://github.com/k0keoyo/Vir.IT-explorer-Anti-Virus-Null-Pointer-Reference-PoC…