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Conexant Systems MicTray: CVE-2017-8360: Conexant Systems MicTray task leaks sensitive data to any process

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Conexant Systems MicTray: CVE-2017-8360: Conexant Systems MicTray task leaks sensitive data to any process

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/12/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/27/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Conexant Systems mictray/mictray64 task, as used on HP Elite, EliteBook, ProBook, and ZBook systems, leaks sensitive data (keystrokes) to any process via a LowLevelKeyboardProc Windows hook. This data is leaked via unintended channels: debug messages accessible to any process that is running in the current user session, and filesystem access to C:\Public\MicTray.log by any process.

Solution(s)

  • windows-mictray-cve-2017-8360

References

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