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CVE-2007-5040

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Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published9/24/2007

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

ghostsecurity:ghost_security_suite

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20CWE-264

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3161(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3161(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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