National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1808
Original release date:05/28/2009
Last revised:06/10/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Microsoft Windows XP SP3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by making an SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER SystemParametersInfo call with an improperly terminated pvParam argument, followed by an SPI_GETDESKWALLPAPER SystemParametersInfo call.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: XF
Name: win-spisetdeskwallpaper-dos(50903)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022330
External Source: BID
Name: 35120
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.ragestorm.net/blogs/?p=78
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35323