Apple macOS Catalina Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Apple macOS Catalina is a specialized operating system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac computers. A security vulnerability exists in Apple macOS Catalina versions prior to 10.15.6, which can be exploited by applications to execute arbitrary code using kernel privileges. A remote attacker can...

CVE-2020-16907

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or...

CVE-2020-16913

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or...

CVE-2020-16907

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or...

CVE-2020-16890

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create ne...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or...

CVE-2020-16907

CVE-2020-16907 is a Windows kernel-mode elevation of privilege vulnerability. The issue arises when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory, allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode, potentially installing programs, accessing or modifyin...

CVE-2020-16913: Undefined Security Weakness

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or...

CVE-2020-16907: Undefined Security Weakness

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or...

CVE-2020-16890: Undefined Security Weakness

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create ne...

Microsoft Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows is a desktop operating system from Microsoft. Microsoft Windows suffers from a kernel elevation of privilege vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary code in kernel mode...

Microsoft Windows Kernel Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows Server are both products of Microsoft Corporation.Microsoft Windows is an operating system for personal devices.Microsoft Windows Server is a server operating system. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Windows kernel mode driver...

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or...

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or...

Design/Logic Flaw

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer nvlddmkm.sys scheduler, in which the software does not properly limit the number or frequency of interactions that it has with an actor, such as the number of incoming requests, which may lead to...

CVE-2020-5982

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer nvlddmkm.sys scheduler, in which the software does not properly limit the number or frequency of interactions that it has with an actor, such as the number of incoming requests, which may lead to...

CVE-2020-5982

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer nvlddmkm.sys scheduler, in which the software does not properly limit the number or frequency of interactions that it has with an actor, such as the number of incoming requests, which may lead to...

CVE-2020-5982

CVE-2020-5982 affects the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, specifically the kernel-mode layer nvlddmkm.sys scheduler. The vulnerability is described as the software not properly limiting the number/frequency of interactions with an actor, which may lead to a denial of service. The NVIDIA adviso...

Exploitability Analysis: Smash the Ref Bug Class

In April 2020, security researcher Gil Dabah published a paper on a set of vulnerabilities he had discovered within the Win32k subsystem of the Windows operating system. These vulnerabilities demonstrated instances of a new class of bugs, dubbed “Smash the Ref.” Dabah’s research included 13 test...