#windows

**How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** To exploit this vulnerability, a victim machine must be running a performance counter collection tool such as Performance Monitor to collect performance counter data from an attacker machine. An attacker with local admin authority on the attacker machine could run malicious code remotely in the victim machine's performance counter data collector process.

**According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?** An attacker would have to convince the user to load a malicious file onto a vulnerable system, typically by way of an enticement in an Email or Instant Messenger message, and then convince the user to manipulate the specially crafted file, but not necessarily click or open the malicious file.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is adjacent (AV:A). What does that mean for this vulnerability?** An unauthenticated attacker with LAN access could exploit this vulnerability.

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?** The word **Remote** in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. For example, when the score indicates that the **Attack Vector** is **Local** and **User Interaction** is **Required**, this could describe an exploit in which an attacker, through social engineering, convinces a victim to download and open a specially crafted file from a website which leads to a local attack on their computer.

**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is one byte of kernel memory could be leaked back to the attacker.

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

**How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** An authenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by uploading a malicious TIFF file to a server.

**How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** To exploit this vulnerability, a victim machine must be running a performance counter collection tool such as Performance Monitor to collect performance counter data from an attacker machine. An attacker with local admin authority on the attacker machine could run malicious code remotely in the victim machine's performance counter data collector process.

**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially read small portions of heap memory.

**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** Exploiting this vulnerability could allow the disclosure of certain kernel memory content.