CVE-2018-0743

Summary

CVECVE-2018-0743
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-04 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionWindows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10 version 1703, Windows 10 version 1709, and Windows Server, version 1709 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability".

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 1703 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 1709 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 1703 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 1709 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2016 1709 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2016 1709 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Saar Amar na Twitterze: "My new vuln CVE-2018-0743 in WSL was patched today && it's tweetable! int main(void) { int n = 0xaaaaaaa; void **p = calloc(n, 8); for (; n; --n) p[n-1] = ""; execv("", p); } Full exploit at @bluehatil https://t.co/9DrHEZrsy9" MISC twitter.com Third Party Advisory
Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux - 'execve()' Local Privilege Escalation - Windows local Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
GitHub - saaramar/execve_exploit: Hardcore corruption of my execve() vulnerability in WSL MISC github.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0743 CONFIRM portal.msrc.microsoft.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Windows Subsystem for Linux Integer Overflow Lets Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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