6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2010-0485

Published: 08/06/2010 Updated: 07/12/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.1
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The Windows kernel-mode drivers in win32k.sys in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP1 and SP2, Server 2008 Gold and SP2, Windows 7, and Server 2008 R2 "do not properly validate all callback parameters when creating a new window," which allows local users to execute arbitrary code, aka "Win32k Window Creation Vulnerability."

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microsoft windows 2000

microsoft windows xp

microsoft windows xp -

microsoft windows 2003 server

microsoft windows vista -

microsoft windows vista

microsoft windows server 2008

microsoft windows server 2008 -

microsoft windows 7 -

microsoft windows server 2008 r2

Exploits

Core Security Technologies Advisory - A crash due to an invalid read in the Windows kernel can be reliably leveraged into privileged code execution resulting in a privilege escalation local vulnerability This happens because special values of 'hParent' where not sufficiently taken into account when patching 'xxxCreateWindowsEx' on MS010-032 ...