CVE-2006-0488 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2006-0488?

CVE-2006-0488 is a low-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 1 Feb 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) emulation environment for MS-DOS applications in Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to read the first megabyte of memory and possibly obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by dumper.asm.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-0488?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2006-0488?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-0488 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2006-0488 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-0488 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000

• CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-0232 Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1123 Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2002-0367 Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2010-0269 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5j7g-xq3v-32m6.