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Vulnerabilities in Event System Could Allow Remote Code Execution (950974)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

9.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS08-049.

Insight

Insight

Issues are due to the Microsoft Windows Event System does not properly validate the range of indexes when calling an array of function pointers and fails to handle per-user subscription requests.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/2003

Solution

Solution

The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for more information.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)