Security Advisory
CVE-2019-11490
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in Npcap 0.992. Sending a malformed .pcap file with the loopback adapter using either pcap_sendqueue_queue() or pcap_sendqueue_transmit() results in kernel pool corruption. This could lead to arbitrary code executing inside the Windows kernel and allow escalation of privileges.
Published Date
April 24, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory