CVE-2007-5040 (GCVE-0-2007-5040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:17
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Summary
Ghost Security Suite alpha 1.200 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 the (1) NtCreateKey, (2) NtCreateThread, (3) NtDeleteValueKey, (4) NtQueryValueKey, (5) NtSetSystemInformation, and (6) NtSetValueKey kernel SSDT hooks.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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Date Public
2007-09-18 00:00
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