CVE-2006-6696
microsoft: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
- EPSS
- 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:windows_2000
- microsoft:windows_2003_server
- microsoft:windows_vista
- microsoft:windows_xp
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/22/new-report-of-a-windows-vulnerability.aspx
- http://groups.google.ca/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel/browse_thread/thread/c5946bf40f227058/7bd7b5d66a4e5aff
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?n&storyid=1965
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051394.html
- http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061215.html