Vulnerability Spotlight: Privilege escalation in Windows 10 CLFS driver

Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.
Cisco Talos recently discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows 10 Common Log File System. CLFS is a general-purpose logging service that can be used by software clients running in user-mode or kernel-mode. A malformed CLFS log file could cause a pool overflow, and an adversary could gain the ability to execute code on the victim machine. A regular user needs to open the log file to…



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