Armoury Crate vulnerability

What happened

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in ASUS Armoury Crate allows a local user to cause a denial-of-service condition through system memory exhaustion by bypassing driver authentication and allocating an unrestricted amount of memory.Refer to the ' Security Update for Armoury Crate App ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.

Affected versions

Armoury Crate: through 6.5.7 (custom) Fixed: See vendor advisory.

Why it matters

Review the vendor advisory and exposure of the affected product to determine operational impact.

Detection & mitigation

• Apply vendor-provided updates or mitigations.
• Review affected product exposure and access logs.