Security Advisory

CVE-2020-16901

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-10-16 22:17:41
Last updated 2024-08-04 13:45:34
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

Description

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly initializes objects in memory.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could run a specially crafted application. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows kernel initializes objects in memory.</p>