CVE-2006-6296 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the Print Spooler service (spoolsv.exe) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 and earlier, and potentially Windows XP SP1 and earlier. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending an RPC request with an excessively large output buffer size to the RpcGetPrinterData function, leading to memory exhaustion. With a CVSS score of 6.1, this vulnerability is network-exploitable with low complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a complete loss of availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp4:*:fr:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp1:tablet_pc:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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