CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5758
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-11-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 through 2000 SP4 and Windows XP through SP2 maps GDI Kernel structures on a global shared memory section that is mapped with read-only permissions, but can be remapped by other processes as read-write, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and gain privileges by modifying the kernel structures.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 2000
• microsoft windows xp
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://kernelwars.blogspot.com/2007/01/alive.html kernelwars.blogspot.com
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-06-11-2006.html projects.info-pull.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22668 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017168 securitytracker.com
- http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-europe-07/bh-eu-07-speakers.html#Eriksson www.blackhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466186/100/200/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20940 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4358 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1215 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-017 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30042 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2056 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://kernelwars.blogspot.com/2007/01/alive.html kernelwars.blogspot.com
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-06-11-2006.html projects.info-pull.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22668 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017168 securitytracker.com
- http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-europe-07/bh-eu-07-speakers.html#Eriksson www.blackhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466186/100/200/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20940 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4358 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1215 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-017 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30042 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2056 oval.cisecurity.org