Windows GDI Privilege Elevation

Added: 05/25/2009 CVE: CVE-2006-5758 BID: 20940 OSVDB: 30214 Background The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP maps GDI Kernel structures on a global shared memory section that is created with insecure permissions. Problem Users with local access can remap the shar...

CVE-2006-5758: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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...