Kaspersky ID:
KLA10714
Detect Date:
12/08/2015
Updated:
09/26/2023

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft Windows. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service or gain privileges.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities

  1. Improper requests parsing at Windows Domain Name System (DNS) can be exploited remotely via a specially designed DNS requests to execute arbitrary code;
  2. Improper fonts parsing at Uniscribe can be exploited remotely via a specially designed content to execute arbitrary code;
  3. Improper input validation can be exploited locally via a specially designed application to execute arbitrary code;
  4. Race condition at Windows Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) protocol can be exploited by logged in attacker via a specially designed application to gain privileges;
  5. Improper memory handling at Windows kernel can be exploited by logged in user to gain privileges.
  6. Unspecified vulnerabilities in Windows Media Center

Technical details

Vulnerability (1) is relevant for Windows servers configured as DNS servers. Exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of Local System Account.

Vulnerability (3) caused by improper input validation before libraries loading.

Vulnerability (4) related to situation when attacker-induced race condition results in references to memory contents that have already been freed. This vulnerability id relevant only for systems with installed Microsoft Message Queuing and specifically enabled PGM which isn’t default configuration.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

CVE list

  • CVE-2015-6127
    warning
  • CVE-2015-6131
    critical
  • CVE-2015-6130
    critical
  • CVE-2015-6133
    high
  • CVE-2015-6132
    high
  • CVE-2015-6126
    high
  • CVE-2015-6125
    critical
  • CVE-2015-6175
    high
  • CVE-2015-6174
    high
  • CVE-2015-6128
    high
  • CVE-2015-6171
    high
  • CVE-2015-6173
    high

KB list

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