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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2017-8477: Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 13, 2017
Added
Jun 13, 2017
Modified
Sep 5, 2025

Description

Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an authenticated attacker to run a specially crafted application when the Windows kernel improperly initializes objects in memory, aka "Win32k Information Disclosure Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8470, CVE-2017-8471, CVE-2017-8472, CVE-2017-8473, CVE-2017-8475, and CVE-2017-8484.

Solutions

microsoft-windows-windows_10-1507-kb4022727microsoft-windows-windows_10-1511-kb4022714microsoft-windows-windows_10-1607-kb4022715microsoft-windows-windows_10-1703-kb4022725microsoft-windows-windows_server_2012-kb4022718microsoft-windows-windows_server_2012_r2-kb4022717microsoft-windows-windows_server_2016-1607-kb4022715msft-kb4022717-1d805e7c-215a-4c96-8b39-3829bd2e02d0msft-kb4022717-6abad12a-fc3f-4352-81f7-453e305f13edmsft-kb4022718-185fb91c-8006-4eeb-81f1-611113a80509msft-kb4022718-5cc34e54-998c-4120-ba8a-d528309738f8msft-kb4022722-0fff3ada-3205-441e-9f7f-f9e0198a32cemsft-kb4022722-4182f860-3205-4b8d-bf9d-4b0b93f34adcmsft-kb4022722-61851a6d-1717-4861-801a-461e772cb312msft-kb4022722-65224535-330e-42bd-8e35-824c878ec11amsft-kb4022722-657cd92e-a4a3-4319-a954-52bedeef4cfcmsft-kb4022722-e181eaef-054e-4b52-a00f-503b91461f68msft-kb4022887-0ce6f532-cf10-430b-95a7-35a92a0759ddmsft-kb4022887-43e87341-5dc4-4f2a-ab5a-8a2109d1f4bfmsft-kb4022887-5bd158e3-1e60-4842-ade9-f495820e4033msft-kb4022887-68036196-581a-4918-80b0-9b81cef6f44d
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