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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5758
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CVE-2006-5758

Description:
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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

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

ST
  1017168

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA22668

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

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

MISC
  http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-europe-07/bh-eu-07-speakers.html#Eriksson
  http://kernelwars.blogspot.com/2007/01/alive.html
  http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-06-11-2006.html

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

BID
  20940


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