CVE-2006-6696

Description

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

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1816

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-021

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1325

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5120

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23324

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21688

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466331/100/200/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455546/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455158/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455104/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455088/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455061/100/0/threaded

http://www.security.nnov.ru/files/messagebox.c

http://www.security.nnov.ru/Gnews944.html

http://www.kuban.ru/forum_new/forum2/files/19124.html

http://www.determina.com/security.research/vulnerabilities/csrss-harderror.html

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017433

http://secunia.com/advisories/23448

http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061215.html

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051394.html

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?n&storyid=1965

http://groups.google.ca/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel/browse_thread/thread/c5946bf40f227058/7bd7b5d66a4e5aff

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/22/new-report-of-a-windows-vulnerability.aspx

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3