Kaspersky ID:
KLA10924
Detect Date:
12/13/2016
Updated:
07/07/2026

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft Windows. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information or gain privileges.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

  1. An improper handling of objects in memory while running a Windows Crypto driver in kernel mode can be exploited locally via a specially designed application to obtain sensitive information;
  2. Improper sanitizing of input (which leads to an insecure library loading behavior) in the Windows Installer can be exploited locally via a specially designed application to gain privileges;
  3. An improper handling of objects in memory in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) can be exploited locally via a specially designed application to obtain sensitive information from process memory.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

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

CVE list

  • CVE-2016-7271
    critical
  • CVE-2016-7273
    critical
  • CVE-2016-7272
    critical
  • CVE-2016-7257
    high
  • CVE-2016-7281
    high
  • CVE-2016-7279
    critical
  • CVE-2016-7278
    high
  • CVE-2016-7283
    critical
  • CVE-2016-7282
    high
  • CVE-2016-7292
    critical
  • CVE-2016-7274
    critical
  • CVE-2016-7295
    high
  • CVE-2016-7219
    high
  • CVE-2016-7258
    high
  • CVE-2016-7259
    critical
  • CVE-2016-7260
    critical

KB list

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