How severe is CVE-2008-5731?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 4.9 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2008-5731?

This is classified as CWE-399, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2008-5731 - MEDIUM Severity | CVSS 4.9

Vulnerability Description

The PGPwded device driver (aka PGPwded.sys) in PGP Corporation PGP Desktop 9.0.6 build 6060 and 9.9.0 build 397 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) and possibly gain privileges via a certain METHOD_BUFFERED IOCTL request that overwrites portions of memory, related to a "Driver Collapse." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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