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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| Description | 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. | 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. |
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: microsoft
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T18:13:29.478Z
Reserved: 2018-11-26T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2019-1185
Updated: 2024-08-04T18:13:29.478Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-08-14T21:15:17.047
Modified: 2026-02-20T21:18:42.753
Link: CVE-2019-1185
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