CVE-2006-6753 Denial of service in n/a
Improper handling of percent characters in Event Viewer logs can cause display issues and disrupt dependent processes, requiring local access to trigger.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-6753?
CVE-2006-6753 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Dec 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) in Microsoft Windows does not properly display log data that contains '%' (percent) characters, which might make it impossible to use Event Viewer to determine the actual data that triggered an event, and might produce long strings that are not properly handled by certain processes that rely on Event Viewer.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6753?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Windows Event Viewer.
How do I fix CVE-2006-6753?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-6753 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-6753 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-6753 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rvfm-gjh7-5x2v.