CVE-2008-6819 (GCVE-0-2008-6819)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-06-01 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:41
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Summary
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.
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