CVE-2016-0178

Severity

90%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

165%

The RPC NDR Engine in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 mishandles free operations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed RPC requests, aka "RPC Network Data Representation Engine Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

The RPC NDR Engine in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 mishandles free operations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed RPC requests, aka "RPC Network Data Representation Engine Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Windows

First reported 8 years ago

2016-05-11 01:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 22:11:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows RT 8.1

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

90032

1035837

MS16-061

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