CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-11490
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
An issue was discovered in Npcap 0.992. Sending a malformed .pcap file with the loopback adapter using either pcap_sendqueue_queue() or pcap_sendqueue_transmit() results in kernel pool corruption. This could lead to arbitrary code executing inside the Windows kernel and allow escalation of privileges.
Affected configurations
• nmap npcap 0.992
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1568 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1568 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory