CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-2549

7.2 HIGH Published 2010-07-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-07-02
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

Use-after-free vulnerability in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2 and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) by using a large number of calls to the NtUserCheckAccessForIntegrityLevel function to trigger a failure in the LockProcessByClientId function, leading to deletion of an in-use process object, aka "Win32k Reference Count Vulnerability."

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows server 2008 • microsoft windows vista

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-911 Improper Update of Reference Count weakness

References