CVE-2018-15499: Gearsoftware Gearaspiwdm

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GEAR Software products that include GEARAspiWDM.sys, 2.2.5.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service (Race Condition and BSoD on Windows) by not checking that user-mode memory is available right before writing to it. A check is only performed at the beginning of a long subroutine.

Affected products

Published 2018-08-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.