Security Advisory

CVE-2012-1865

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-06-12 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 19:08:38
Assigner microsoft
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 does not properly handle user-mode input passed to kernel mode for driver objects, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "String Atom Class Name Handling Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-1864.