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CVE-2006-6696

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2006-12-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows XpMicrosoft Windows 2000Microsoft Windows 2003 ServerMicrosoft Windows Vista

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References