CVE-2007-1209

Published Apr 10, 2007

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in the Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) in Microsoft Windows Vista does not properly handle connection resources when starting and stopping processes, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening and closing multiple ApiPort connections, which leaves a "dangling pointer" to a process data structure.
Source: secure@microsoft.com
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.2
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-399

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_vista:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "3852BB02-47A1-40B3-8E32-8D8891A53114"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References