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CSRSS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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The Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (aka CSRSS) in the Win32 subsystem in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 Server 2003 SP2 Vista SP2 and Server 2008 SP2 when a Chinese Japanese or Korean system locale is used can access uninitialized memory during the processing of Unicode characters which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application aka "CSRSS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
Family:
windows
Status:
ACCEPTED
Platform(s):
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows XP
Class:
vulnerability
Reference(s):
- CVE-2012-0005
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