CVE-2009-1808

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 15 years ago

2009-05-28 20:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-17 01:30:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 Home Edition

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 Media Center Edition

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 Professional Edition

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 Tablet PC

References

35323

http://www.ragestorm.net/blogs/?p=78

Exploit

35120

Exploit

1022330

win-spisetdeskwallpaper-dos(50903)

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