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MS14-040 AFD.sys Dangling Pointer Further Analysis

October 6, 2014 By RSM Author

In July of this year (2014), an excellent write up was released by Sebastian Apelt of Siberas on the vulnerability described in the MS14-040 advisory. This vulnerability is a dangling pointer in the AFD.sys driver that when successfully exploited can allow a program to execute code in the context of NT_AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. This is a significant vulnerability as there are currently ... READ MORE

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