CVE-2026-16005

published 2026-09-08

CVE-2026-16005: Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference in Armoury Crate driver allows a local user to free arbitrary memory via a crafted IOCTL request by bypassing the…

Priority P4 27 medium 5.8 CVSS 4.0

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Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference in Armoury Crate driver allows a local user to free arbitrary memory via a crafted IOCTL request by bypassing the driver's verification, which can corrupt data structures and cause a system crash (BSOD).Refer to the '
Security Update for Armoury Crate App ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
asus	armoury_crate	—	—

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