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Title : Microsoft Windows GDI Kernel Structures Handling Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory 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

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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.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Cesar Cerrudo (Argeniss)

ChangeLog

2006-11-06 : Initial release
2007-04-03 : Updated Solution

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