CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-8124

Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

Published: May 09, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k component fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8120, CVE-2018-8164, CVE-2018-8166.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_10 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1511 (including) 1511 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1607 (including) 1607 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1703 (including) 1703 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1709 (including) 1709 (including)
Windows_10 Microsoft 1807 (including) 1807 (including)

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, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

References