CVE-2007-1209 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-1209
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Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) in Microsoft Windows Vista does not properly handle connection resources when starting and stopping processes, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening and closing multiple ApiPort connections, which leaves a "dangling pointer" to a process data structure.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: ST 1017897 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2531 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA24823 OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1524 OSVDB 34008 MS http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-021.mspx MISC http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20070410b.html HP http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/466331/100/200/threaded CERT-VN 219848 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-100A.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/465233/100/0/threaded BID 23338

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