MSRC-CVE-2023-35635 — Windows Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Denial of Service. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
This vulnerability could be exploited if an authenticated user opens a specially crafted file locally or browses to that file on a network share when running an unpatched version of Windows. When the user browses or lists the maliciously crafted file that action could cause a crash of the operating system.

Security updates
10.0.22621.2861 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5033375

Vulnerabilities 1

Medium 5.5

CVE-2023-35635

Windows Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability

Windows Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows 11 version 23H2 Windows 11 version 22H2 Windows 11 version 22H3 Windows

Dec 12, 2023

Revision history

2023-12-12 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-35635 Windows Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-35635
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss