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Tracker / CVE-2019-1159

CVE-2019-1159

High 7.8

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 new accounts with full user rights. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application to take control of an affected system. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows kernel handles objects in memory.

Affected products and versions

microsoft windows_10
microsoft windows_7
microsoft windows_8.1
microsoft windows_rt_8.1
microsoft windows_server_2008
microsoft windows_server_2012
microsoft windows_server_2016
microsoft windows_server_2019

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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