CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-0810

Improper Initialization

Published: Feb 15, 2018 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
4.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
1.9 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Windows kernel in Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2, and Windows Server 2012 allows an information disclosure vulnerability due to the way memory is initialized, aka Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0757.

Weakness

The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_7 Microsoft * *
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft r2 r2
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft - -

Potential Mitigations

  • Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
  • For example, in Java, if the programmer does not explicitly initialize a variable, then the code could produce a compile-time error (if the variable is local) or automatically initialize the variable to the default value for the variable’s type. In Perl, if explicit initialization is not performed, then a default value of undef is assigned, which is interpreted as 0, false, or an equivalent value depending on the context in which the variable is accessed.

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