CVE-2009-1808: Microsoft Windows XP

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Windows XP SP3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by making an SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER SystemParametersInfo call with an improperly terminated pvParam argument, followed by an SPI_GETDESKWALLPAPER SystemParametersInfo call.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows XP: affected versions not specified

Published 2009-05-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.