>> Microsoft Windows GDI Kernel Structures Handling Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Title : Microsoft Windows GDI Kernel Structures Handling Privilege Escalation Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4358 CVE ID : CVE-2006-5758
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-11-06
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a denial of service or obtain elevated privileges. This issue is due to an error within the handling of GDI kernel structures where the created global shared memory section (mapped with read-only permissions) could be re-mapped with read-write permissions, which could allow local attackers to crash an affected system or execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.
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