Microsoft Issues Patch for Windows Zero-Day Flaw Under Active Attack

Microsoft today, on its year-end December Patch Tuesday, released security updates to patch a total 39 vulnerabilities its Windows operating systems and applications—10 of which are rated as critical and other important in severity. One of the security vulnerabilities patched by the tech giant th...

Zero-day in Windows Kernel Transaction Manager (CVE-2018-8611)

Executive summary In October 2018, our AEP Automatic Exploit Prevention systems detected an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system. Further analysis led us to uncover a zero-day vulnerability in ntoskrnl.exe. We reported it to Microsoft on October 29, 2018. T...

CVE-2018-8637

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Windows kernel that could allow an attacker to retrieve information that could lead to a Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization KASLR bypass, aka "Win32k Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 10 Servers, Windows 10, Window...

CVE-2018-8641

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2019,...

CVE-2018-8621

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8477, CVE-2018-8622...

CVE-2018-8622

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows...

CVE-2018-8621

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8477, CVE-2018-8622...

CVE-2018-8611

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server...

CVE-2018-8477

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2012,...

Information disclosure

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows...

Information disclosure

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Windows kernel that could allow an attacker to retrieve information that could lead to a Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization KASLR bypass, aka "Win32k Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 10 Servers, Windows 10, Window...

CVE-2018-8637

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Windows kernel that could allow an attacker to retrieve information that could lead to a Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization KASLR bypass, aka "Win32k Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 10 Servers, Windows 10, Window...

CVE-2018-8622

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows...

CVE-2018-8637

CVE-2018-8637 is a Windows kernel vulnerability (Win32k Information Disclosure) that can disclose memory addresses from kernel space, potentially bypassing KASLR. Affected: Windows kernel components (Win32k) on Windows 10/Windows Server 2019. Root cause: how the kernel handles memory addresses en...

CVE-2018-8622: Undefined Security Weakness

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows...

CVE-2018-8611

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server...

CVE-2018-8477: Undefined Security Weakness

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2012,...

Microsoft Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-03922)

Microsoft Windows 10 and others are a series of operating systems released by Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. Windows kernel is one of the Windows system kernels. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Windows kernel that can be exploited by an attacker to retrieve the...

CVE-2018-8477

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2012,...

CVE-2018-8477

CVE-2018-8477 is a Windows kernel information disclosure vulnerability caused by improper handling of objects in memory. Affected products include multiple Windows client and server editions (e.g., Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008/2008 R2, 2012/2012 R2, 2016, 2019). The vul...