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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-6679 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:34:00.423Z

Reserved: 2006-12-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-6696

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-12-22T02:28:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2006-6696

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