CVE-2014-1767 - Double Free

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

CWE-415: Double Free

Double free vulnerability in the Ancillary Function Driver (AFD) in afd.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Ancillary Function Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

CWE-415: Double Free

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Demo Examples

Double Free

CWE-415

Double Free

CWE-415

While contrived, this code should be exploitable on Linux distributions which do not ship with heap-chunk check summing turned on.


               
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Overview

Type

Microsoft Windows

First reported 10 years ago

2014-07-08 22:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 22:06:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows RT

Microsoft Windows RT 8.1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

r2

Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2

References

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VDB Entry

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-220/

VDB Entry

MS14-040

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