CVE-2010-2549 Information

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2 and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) by using a large number of calls to the NtUserCheckAccessForIntegrityLevel function to trigger a failure in the LockProcessByClientId function leading to deletion of an in-use process object aka \Win32k Reference Count Vulnerability.\

Reference

http://osvdb.org/66003 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Jul/3 http://secunia.com/advisories/40421 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14156 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41280 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-285A.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/60120 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A12215