CVE-2008-6819 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2008-6819?

CVE-2008-6819 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, published on 1 Jun 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

win32k.sys in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors related to CreateWindow, TranslateMessage, and DispatchMessage, possibly a race condition between threads, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1084. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-6819?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Vista.

How do I fix CVE-2008-6819?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-6819 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2008-6819 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-6819 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

• CVE-2008-0015 Microsoft Windows Video ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1701 Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2013-5065 Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2011-1268 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-1868 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2003 Server vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-x7p2-h34x-gw97.