CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-6819

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2009-06-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-06-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

win32k.sys in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors related to CreateWindow, TranslateMessage, and DispatchMessage, possibly a race condition between threads, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1084. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2003 server • microsoft windows vista

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References