CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6696

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2006-12-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-12-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Double free vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista allows local users to gain privileges by calling the MessageBox function with a MB_SERVICE_NOTIFICATION message with crafted data, which sends a HardError message to Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem (CSRSS) process, which is not properly handled when invoking the UserHardError and GetHardErrorText functions in WINSRV.DLL.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows 2003 server datacenter edition • microsoft windows 2003 server enterprise edition • microsoft windows 2003 server sp1 • microsoft windows 2003 server standard • microsoft windows 2003 server web • microsoft windows vista • microsoft windows xp

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References