CVE-2006-6696

Double free vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista allows local users to gain privileges by calling the MessageBox function with a…

published December 22, 2006

CVSS
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EPSS
3%
Percentile
88.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03414 · 88.8th percentile
Published
2006-12-22T02:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 DEC 02:00Z
    Double free vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista allows local users to gain privileges by calling the MessageBox function with a…
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