Description: eEye Digital Security has reported a vulnerability in Windows Vista, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to incorrect marshaling of system resources in the Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) when handling connections during the startup and stopping of processes. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by establishing and closing multiple connections to the subsystem's "ApiPort".
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.
Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.