CVE-2018-8233

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 10, Windows 10 Servers.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

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.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104383
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041093
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8233