A use-after-free vulnerability in the Windows WFP callout driver of Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) allows a local low-privileged user to cause a denial of service (system crash / BSOD) via an outbound ICMPv6 packet containing an IPv6 Hop-by-Hop extension header. When the IPv6 ICMP redirect policy is active, the packet is copied into a buffer that is freed but subsequently passed to a downstream filter. The size of the freed allocation is attacker-controlled (via packet length), enabling kernel pool grooming. Exploitation requires that the non-default IPv6 ICMP capture/redirect policy is enabled for the endpoint.
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| Title | Use‑After‑Free Causing System Crash in Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent |
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| Description | A use-after-free vulnerability in the Windows WFP callout driver of Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA) allows a local low-privileged user to cause a denial of service (system crash / BSOD) via an outbound ICMPv6 packet containing an IPv6 Hop-by-Hop extension header. When the IPv6 ICMP redirect policy is active, the packet is copied into a buffer that is freed but subsequently passed to a downstream filter. The size of the freed allocation is attacker-controlled (via packet length), enabling kernel pool grooming. Exploitation requires that the non-default IPv6 ICMP capture/redirect policy is enabled for the endpoint. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-416 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-14T17:22:56.490Z
Reserved: 2026-06-04T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2026-50217
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-14T06:17:06.760
Modified: 2026-10-14T18:17:37.443
Link: CVE-2026-50217
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Updated: 2026-10-14T17:30:04Z
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