Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

CVE-2008-6819

win32k.sys in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors related to CreateWindow, TranslateMessage, and DispatchMessage, possibly a race condition between threads, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1084. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.013 (67.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References