Unrated severityOSV Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2019· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2019-11490
CVE-2019-11490
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.
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References
1- github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1568mitrex_refsource_MISC
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