CVE-2006-5758

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

06/11/2006

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 through 2000 SP4 and Windows XP through SP2 maps GDI Kernel structures on a global shared memory section that is mapped with read-only permissions, but can be remapped by other processes as read-write, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and gain privileges by modifying the kernel structures.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000::sp4::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::gold:professional_x64:::::
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::sp2::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::sp2:professional_x64:::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000::sp4::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::gold:professional_x64:::::
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::sp2::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::sp2:professional_x64:::::

CVE-2006-5758

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools