Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2008
CVE-2010-2549
Use-after-free vulnerability in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2 and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) by using a large number of calls to the NtUserCheckAccessForIntegrityLevel function to trigger a failure in the LockProcessByClientId function, leading to deletion of an in-use process object, aka "Win32k Reference Count Vulnerability."
EPSS: 0.051 (91.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows_server_2008
- Microsoft Windows_vista
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
- secure@microsoft.com (Exploit, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
- secure@microsoft.com (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)