Security Advisory
CVE-2019-1185
7.3
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a stack corruption in Windows Subsystem for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code with elevated permissions.
To exploit the vulnerability, a locally authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows Subsystem for Linux handles objects in memory.
Published Date
August 14, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory