Microsoft security update for CVE-2019-0985 — Windows
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products5
- Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
- Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems Service Pack 1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 KB articles
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2019-0985
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) improperly handles text-to-speech (TTS) input. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a user to open a specially crafted document containing TTS content invoked through a scripting language. The update address the vulnerability by modifying how the system handles objects in memory.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2019-0985, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).
🔗 References (5)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2019-0985
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4503292
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/4503292
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB4503269
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/4503269