CVE-2008-5044 (GCVE-0-2008-5044)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-12 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:40
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32206 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498165/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4576 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://killprog.com/whk.zip x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2008-11-09 00:00
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