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CVE-2006-5758

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2006-11-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows 2000Microsoft Windows Xp

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References