CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-32040

Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Published: Jul 11, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Microsoft PostScript and PCL6 Class Printer Driver Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Weakness

The product obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_10_1507 Microsoft * *
Windows_10_1607 Microsoft * *
Windows_10_1809 Microsoft * *
Windows_10_21h2 Microsoft * *
Windows_10_22h2 Microsoft * *
Windows_11_21h2 Microsoft * *
Windows_11_22h2 Microsoft * *
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft r2 (including) r2 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2022 Microsoft - (including) - (including)

Extended Description

An attacker can supply a pointer for memory locations that the product is not expecting. If the pointer is dereferenced for a write operation, the attack might allow modification of critical state variables, cause a crash, or execute code. If the dereferencing operation is for a read, then the attack might allow reading of sensitive data, cause a crash, or set a variable to an unexpected value (since the value will be read from an unexpected memory location). There are several variants of this weakness, including but not necessarily limited to:

References