CVE-2020-0941

Impact

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the win32k component improperly provides kernel information. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to either log on locally to an affected system, or convince a locally authenticated user to execute a specially crafted application.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how win32k handles objects in memory.</p>

Affected products

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0941
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0941