CVE-2017-11742

The writeRandomBytesRtlGenRandom function in xmlparse.c in libexpat in Expat 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse ADVAPI32.DLL in the current working directory because of an untrusted search path, aka DLL hijacking...

CVE-2017-11742

Affected software: Expat library (libexpat) on Windows, versions 2.2.1 and 2.2.2. Root cause: writeRandomBytes_RtlGenRandom in xmlparse.c suffers from an untrusted DLL search path, enabling DLL hijacking via a malicious ADVAPI32.DLL in the current working directory. Impact: local privilege escala...