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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

A local attacker can use a vulnerability of the win32k.sys kernel
driver, in order to execute code with system privileges.

Impacted products: Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Microsoft Windows
2012, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista

Severity: 2/4

Creation date: 08/01/2013

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

The win32k.sys kernel driver for example manages windows.

However, this driver does not correctly process "window broadcast"
messages. Technical details are unknown.

A local attacker can therefore use a vulnerability of the
win32k.sys kernel driver, in order to execute code with system
privileges.

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