CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-43516

Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 08, 2024 | Modified: Oct 17, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Windows Secure Kernel Mode Elevation of Privilege 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 * 10.0.10240.20796 (excluding)
Windows_10_1607 Microsoft * 10.0.14393.7428 (excluding)
Windows_10_1809 Microsoft * 10.0.17763.6414 (excluding)
Windows_10_21h2 Microsoft * 10.0.19044.5011 (excluding)
Windows_10_22h2 Microsoft * 10.0.19045.5011 (excluding)
Windows_11_21h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22000.3260 (excluding)
Windows_11_22h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22621.4317 (excluding)
Windows_11_23h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22631.4317 (excluding)
Windows_11_24h2 Microsoft * 10.0.26100.2033 (excluding)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft * 10.0.14393.7428 (excluding)
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft * 10.0.17763.6414 (excluding)
Windows_server_2022 Microsoft * 10.0.20348.2762 (excluding)
Windows_server_2022_23h2 Microsoft * 10.0.25398.1189 (excluding)

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