CVE-2019-11490

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    CVE-2019-11490

    Published: 24 Apr 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Npcap 0.992. Sending a malformed .pcap file with the loopback adapter using either pcap_sendqueue_queue() or pcap_sendqueue_transmit() results in kernel pool corruption. This could lead to arbitrary code executing inside the Windows kernel and allow escalation of privileges.

    References: https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1568

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- b67d7eec5ae9e15598ad760055fc89dae68b92e4
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.992

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High