National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5044
Original release date:11/12/2008
Last revised:03/13/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Race condition in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via a multi-threaded application that makes many calls to UnhookWindowsHookEx while certain other desktop activity is occurring.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: XF
Name: win-unhookwindowshookex-dos(46506)
External Source: BID
Name: 32206
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081109 BSOD in Win'2k3, Vista x86 and x64 by nonpriviledged user
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4576
External Source: MISC
Name: http://killprog.com/whk.zip