Security Advisory

CVE-2019-0736

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-08-14 20:55:02
Last updated 2024-08-04 17:58:59
Assigner microsoft
CVSS score 9.8
State PUBLISHED

Description

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Windows DHCP client when an attacker sends specially crafted DHCP responses to a client. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code on the client machine. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could send specially crafted DHCP responses to a client. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows DHCP clients handle certain DHCP responses.