Vulnerability CVE-2006-6753
Published: 2006-12-26   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) in Microsoft Windows does not properly display log data that contains '%' (percent) characters, which might make it impossible to use Event Viewer to determine the actual data that triggered an event, and might produce long strings that are not properly handled by certain processes that rely on Event Viewer.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.1/10
4.9/10
5.1/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Adjacent network
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
Partial
Affected software
Microsoft -> Windows event viewer 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455044/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455071/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455077/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455079/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455087/100/0/threaded
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