CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2251
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-15
- 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-399
Description
Double free vulnerability in the kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes system calls within multiple threads, aka "Windows Kernel Unhandled Exception Vulnerability." NOTE: according to Microsoft, this is not a duplicate of CVE-2008-4510.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 2000
• microsoft windows server 2003
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows xp
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32247 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31653 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021046 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2812 www.vupen.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-061 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45542 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45544 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6010 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32247 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31653 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021046 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2812 www.vupen.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-061 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45542 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45544 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6010 oval.cisecurity.org