CVE-2007-4971 (GCVE-0-2007-4971)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-19 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:17
VLAI?
Summary
ProSecurity 1.40 Beta 2 does not properly validate certain parameters to System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function handlers, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via kernel SSDT hooks for Windows Native API functions including (1) NtCreateKey, (2) NtDeleteFile, (3) NtLoadDriver, (4) NtOpenSection, and (5) NtSetSystemTime.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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Date Public ?
2007-09-18 00:00
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