Security News > 2016 > November > Google warns of actively exploited Windows zero-day (Help Net Security)
2016-11-01 15:14
Google has disclosed to the public the existence of a Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-7855) that is being actively exploited in the wild. According to Neel Mehta and Billy Leonard, of the Google Threat Analysis Group, it’s a local privilege escalation in the Windows kernel that can be used as a security sandbox escape, and can be triggered “via the win32k.sys system call NtSetWindowLongPtr() for the index GWLP_ID on a window handle with GWL_STYLE set to … More →
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| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-01 | CVE-2016-7855 | Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 23.0.0.205 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.643 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in October 2016. | 9.3 |