CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-5044

4.0 MEDIUM Published 2008-11-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-11-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Race condition in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via a multi-threaded application that makes many calls to UnhookWindowsHookEx while certain other desktop activity is occurring.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows server 2003 • microsoft windows vista

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References