CVE-2008-5731: Pgp Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Pgp Desktop: version 9.0.6 only; version 9.9.0 only

Published 2008-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.