PoC Index

CVE-2006-6696

MEDIUM 6.9EPSS 3.4%

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.

CVSS v2.0
6.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
3.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 88th percentile
Published
2006-12-22
Updated
2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

ExploitDB entries (2)

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