Microsoft Windows Kernel - Use-After-Free with Printer Device Contexts (MS15-097)

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=433 --- The attached PoC demonstrates a UAF condition with printer device contexts. The PoC will trigger on Win 7 32-bit with Special Pool enabled. --- Proof of Concept:...

Cisco Nexus 7000 Device Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switches help create the network infrastructure platform needed for next-generation unified array data centers. Multiple elevation of privilege vulnerabilities exist in the Python scripting subsystem on Cisco Nexus 7000 devices configured with multiple VDCs, which can ...

USN-2581-1 network-manager vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy discovered that NetworkManager incorrectly filtered paths when requested to read modem device contexts. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass privileges and manipulate modem device configuration or read arbitrary files...

CVE-2010-0484

The Windows kernel-mode drivers in win32k.sys in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP1 and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 "do not properly validate changes in certain kernel objects," which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to...

Input validation

The Windows kernel-mode drivers in win32k.sys in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP1 and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 "do not properly validate changes in certain kernel objects," which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to...

CVE-2010-0484

The Windows kernel-mode drivers in win32k.sys in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP1 and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 "do not properly validate changes in certain kernel objects," which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to...