CVE-2006-5758 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2006-5758?

CVE-2006-5758 is a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 6 Nov 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5758?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2006-5758?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-5758 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2006-5758 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-5758 exists.

Public exploit code: 3 Exploit-DB entries.

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-74g6-rhr7-4v93.