Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux CVE-2019-1416 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to a race condition 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.

Affected Applications

Windows 10
Windows Server version 1903 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server version 1803 (Server Core Installation)
Windows Server 2019

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