CVE-2016-0087

CVE-2016-0087 is a local elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Windows where an attacker can gain SYSTEM privileges by abusing a flaw in handle validation in memory. Affected products include Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1. The root cause is i...

Microsoft Windows Privilege Elevation Vulnerability (3140410)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS16-031 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

Microsoft Windows Elevation of Privilege (MS16-031: CVE-2016-0087)

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability is due to type confusion. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to run a specially crafted file...