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Microsoft Windows: CVE-2019-1271: Windows Media Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 10, 2019
Added
Sep 10, 2019
Modified
Sep 5, 2025

Description

An elevation of privilege exists in hdAudio.sys which may lead to an out of band write, aka 'Windows Media Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Solutions

microsoft-windows-windows_10-1507-kb4516070microsoft-windows-windows_10-1607-kb4516044microsoft-windows-windows_10-1703-kb4516068microsoft-windows-windows_10-1709-kb4516066microsoft-windows-windows_10-1803-kb4516058microsoft-windows-windows_10-1809-kb4512578microsoft-windows-windows_10-1903-kb4515384microsoft-windows-windows_server_2012-kb4516062microsoft-windows-windows_server_2012_r2-kb4516064microsoft-windows-windows_server_2016-1607-kb4516044microsoft-windows-windows_server_2019-1809-kb4512578msft-kb4515384-1fec8c01-d96f-4692-9c3f-533f1966ba0fmsft-kb4516033-03092e33-5b1d-4cc9-bcf9-578e906cefb2msft-kb4516033-0ac4e288-0e6c-4bee-99a6-2dc8491bd6e6msft-kb4516033-59d96021-d80c-446b-9cb3-ff0b6178c0b2msft-kb4516033-78d9fe94-89a2-4a23-aa35-dff5e55adbf0msft-kb4516033-8355f60a-e69c-49bf-b934-6b9aedfc75b7msft-kb4516033-cae28dc4-51e5-4572-b3f3-a3f4a1064beemsft-kb4516051-75098e7e-c41d-44da-ad37-91b0e3cfe425msft-kb4516051-911d46a2-77e7-4c47-a32c-a4520f1da8b7msft-kb4516051-c5d5e19d-e7d9-453f-a152-107f4b0479ccmsft-kb4516062-09ced0cc-d1d6-4784-9e63-d2f290ccd19cmsft-kb4516062-fe217e34-9b29-443b-b895-307bf6ec4067msft-kb4516064-90e2bb11-b4ba-4212-90e4-d82f4434a4c9msft-kb4516064-c31ee34e-e1cb-42ba-9f96-28a38c3e45a7

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