CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-0782

Improper Initialization

Published: Apr 09, 2019 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel fails to properly initialize a memory address, aka Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0702, CVE-2019-0755, CVE-2019-0767, CVE-2019-0775.

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_server_2008 Microsoft r2 r2
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft r2 r2
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft r2 r2
Windows_10 Microsoft 1607 1607
Windows_8.1 Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft - -
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft - -
Windows_7 Microsoft - -
Windows_rt_8.1 Microsoft - -
Windows_10 Microsoft 1703 1703
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft - -
Windows_10 Microsoft - -
Windows_10 Microsoft 1709 1709
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft 1709 1709
Windows_10 Microsoft 1803 1803
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft 1803 1803
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft - -
Windows_10 Microsoft 1809 1809

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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