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CVE-2006-6696 (GCVE-0-2006-6696)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-12-22 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:34
VLAI
Summary
Double free vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista allows local users to gain privileges by calling the MessageBox function with a MB_SERVICE_NOTIFICATION message with crafted data, which sends a HardError message to Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem (CSRSS) process, which is not properly handled when invoking the UserHardError and GetHardErrorText functions in WINSRV.DLL.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2006-12-20 00:00
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