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CVE-2008-5044

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-11-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via a multi-threaded application that makes many calls to UnhookWindowsHookEx while certain other desktop activity is occurring.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions

References

• http://killprog.com/whk.zip
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4576
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498165/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32206
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46506
• http://killprog.com/whk.zip
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4576
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498165/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32206
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46506

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