Microsoft Windows CVE-2018-8271 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows bowser.sys kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could potentially disclose contents of System memory. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to the system first and then run a specially crafted application in user mode. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the bowser.sys kernel-mode driver handles objects in memory.

Affected Applications

Windows RT 8.1
Windows Server version 1709 (Server Core Installation)
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server version 1803 (Server Core Installation)
Windows Server 2012
Windows 8
Windows 7
Windows 10
Windows Server 2008

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