CVE-2007-1209 Information

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) in Microsoft Windows Vista does not properly handle connection resources when starting and stopping processes which allows local users to gain privileges by opening and closing multiple ApiPort connections which leaves a \dangling pointer\ to a process data structure.

Reference

http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20070410b.html http://secunia.com/advisories/24823 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2531 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/219848 http://www.osvdb.org/34008 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/465233/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466331/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23338 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017897 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-100A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1325 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-021 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1524