CVE-2006-0488

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

The VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) emulation environment for MS-DOS applications in Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to read the first megabyte of memory and possibly obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by dumper.asm.

The VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) emulation environment for MS-DOS applications in Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to read the first megabyte of memory and possibly obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by dumper.asm.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 19 years ago

2006-02-01 02:02:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-19 15:45:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft windows xp_sp2 tablet_pc

References

20060124 Windows mem leakage

windows-vdm-obtain-information(24471)

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