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.
References
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https://www.spirityenterprise.com/managed-detection-response-microsoft spirity
https://www.spirityenterprise.com/virtual-ciso spirity
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/22/new-report-of-a-windows-vulnerability.aspx cve-icon cve-icon
http://groups.google.ca/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel/browse_thread/thread/c5946bf40f227058/7bd7b5d66a4e5aff cve-icon cve-icon
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?n&storyid=1965 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051394.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061215.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23448 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017433 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.determina.com/security.research/vulnerabilities/csrss-harderror.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kuban.ru/forum_new/forum2/files/19124.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.security.nnov.ru/Gnews944.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.security.nnov.ru/files/messagebox.c cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455061/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455088/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455104/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455158/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455546/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466331/100/200/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21688 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23324 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5120 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1325 cve-icon cve-icon
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-021 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1816 cve-icon cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

Reserved: 2006-12-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6696

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

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

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

Link: CVE-2006-6696

cve-icon Redhat

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