An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a stack corruption in Windows Subsystem for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.
To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows Subsystem for Linux handles objects in memory.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-9756 An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a stack corruption in Windows Subsystem for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions. To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows Subsystem for Linux handles objects in memory.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T18:13:29.478Z

Reserved: 2018-11-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-1185

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Updated: 2024-08-04T18:13:29.478Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-08-14T21:15:17.047

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:36:12.120

Link: CVE-2019-1185

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