CVE-2019-11867 — Realtek NDIS driver rt640x64

Realtek NDIS driver rt640x64.sys, file version 10.1.505.2015, fails to do any size checking on an input buffer from user space, which the driver assumes has a size greater than zero bytes. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must send an IRP with a system buffer size of 0.

01What is this vulnerability?

Realtek NDIS driver rt640x64.sys, file version 10.1.505.2015, fails to do any size checking on an input buffer from user space, which the driver assumes has a size greater than zero bytes. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must send an IRP with a system buffer size of 0.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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: 2020-02-12T17:25:20.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:03:33.147Z

09References

• downwithup.github.io — https://downwithup.github.io/CVEPosts.html
• www.realtek.cz — https://www.realtek.cz/realtek-network-drivers.html