CVE-2015-2549 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Microsoft Windows Server 2008

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer11 documents5 sources
Severity
7.2HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.5%
top 18.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Timeline
PublishedOct 14
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The kernel in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT Gold and 8.1, and Windows 10 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Windows Kernel Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages1 packages

Patches

Patch: docs.microsoft.com ↗Patch: docs.microsoft.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-7g5r-xg7q-hxgf: The kernel in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8↗2022-05-14
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

3
Talos
Microsoft Patch Tuesday - October 2015↗2015-10-13
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Talos
Microsoft Patch Tuesday - October 2015↗2015-10-13
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Zscaler
Zscaler detects IE & MS Office Vulnerabilities | 10-13-2015↗
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💬Community

6
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7497 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey↗2015-11-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7498 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlParseXmlDecl↗2015-11-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7500 libxml2: Heap buffer overflow in xmlParseMisc↗2015-11-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7499 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlGROW↗2015-11-13
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Bugzilla
libxml2: Multiple out-of-bounds reads in xmlDictComputeFastKey.isra.2 and xmlDictAddString.isra.O↗2015-11-13
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