CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0005
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-01-10
- 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-264
Description
The Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (aka CSRSS) in the Win32 subsystem in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP2, and Server 2008 SP2, when a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean system locale is used, can access uninitialized memory during the processing of Unicode characters, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "CSRSS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows server 2003
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows vista
• microsoft windows xp
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47479 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51270 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026495 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-010A.html US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-003 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14879 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47479 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51270 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026495 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-010A.html US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-003 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14879 oval.cisecurity.org