Fortinet Discovers Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Kernel NDProxy

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Routing and Remote Access NDProxy component of the Windows kernel, which could allow an attacker to run code with elevated privileges.

Solutions

Users should apply the solution provided by Microsoft.

Additional Information

The vulnerability is caused by the insufficient checking for parameters passed from user mode to the kernel. It could lead to code execution in ring0 context.

Acknowledgement

Honggang Ren of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

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