Buffer overflow in Microsoft Windows 2000

CVE-2006-6696

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.034 (87.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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