The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 through 2000 SP4 and Windows XP through SP2 maps GDI Kernel structures on a global shared memory section that is mapped with read-only permissions, but can be remapped by other processes as read-write, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and gain privileges by modifying the kernel structures.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-5742 The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 through 2000 SP4 and Windows XP through SP2 maps GDI Kernel structures on a global shared memory section that is mapped with read-only permissions, but can be remapped by other processes as read-write, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and gain privileges by modifying the kernel structures.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-07T20:04:55.433Z

Reserved: 2006-11-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-5758

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-11-06T20:07:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-5758

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