National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5758

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: windows-gdi-kernel-privilege-escalation(30042)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30042

External Source: BID

Name: 20940

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20940

External Source: MS

Name: MS07-017

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms07-017.mspx

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-1215

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1215

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-4358

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/4358

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-europe-07/bh-eu-07-speakers.html#Eriksson

Hyperlink:http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-europe-07/bh-eu-07-speakers.html#Eriksson

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017168

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017168

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22668

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22668

External Source: MISC

Name: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-06-11-2006.html

Hyperlink:http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-06-11-2006.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://kernelwars.blogspot.com/2007/01/alive.html

Hyperlink:http://kernelwars.blogspot.com/2007/01/alive.html

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBST02206

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/466186/100/200/threaded

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2056

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2056

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2056