CVE-2006-6696

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 3.4%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDDec 22

1st PoCDec 20

exploitation probability

3.4%top 12% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/2967 exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/3024

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/22/new-report-of-a-windows-vulnerability.aspx http://groups.google.ca/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel/browse_thread/thread/c5946bf40f227058/7bd7b5d66a4e5aff http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?n&storyid=1965 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-December/051394.html http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061215.html https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-021 http://secunia.com/advisories/23448 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017433 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1816 http://www.determina.com/security.research/vulnerabilities/csrss-harderror.html http://www.kuban.ru/forum_new/forum2/files/19124.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455061/100/0/threaded