Fortra Discovers A Critical Vulnerability In Windows 10 And 11

Cyber security company Fortra has published details about a vulnerability they discovered in Microsoft’s Windows 10 and 11.

Fortra Principal Exploit Writer Ricardo Narvaja uncovered a vulnerability in the Common Log File System (CLFS.sys) driver of Windows, caused by improper validation of specified quantities in input data. This flaw leads to an unrecoverable inconsistency, triggering the KeBugCheckEx function and resulting in a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). The issue affects all versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11, despite having all updates applied.

This has been published on Fortra’s new Security and Trust Center page: https://www.fortra.com/security/advisories/research

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