{"id":72351,"date":"2011-12-21T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72351"},"modified":"2011-12-21T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T12:51:09","slug":"microsoft-windows-win32k-sys-memory-corruption-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/microsoft-windows-win32k-sys-memory-corruption-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Windows win32k.sys Memory Corruption Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows which can be exploited by malicious parties to potentially compromise a user&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page containing an IFRAME with an overly large &#8220;height&#8221; attribute. This is viewed using the Apple Safari browser and can cause a BSoD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/Windows7x64-2011-12-21-16-08-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with kernel-mode privileges.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability is confirmed on a fully patched Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Other versions may also be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows which can be exploited by malicious parties to potentially compromise a user&#8217;s system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page containing an IFRAME with an overly large &#8220;height&#8221; attribute. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[73,52,38,103],"class_list":["post-72351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-windows","tag-microsoft-os","tag-operating-system","tag-vulnerability","tag-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}