Security Advisory

CVE-2007-5667

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-11-14 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 15:39:13
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

NWFILTER.SYS in Novell Client 4.91 SP 1 through SP 4 for Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 makes the \.\nwfilter device available for arbitrary user-mode input via METHOD_NEITHER IOCTLs, which allows local users to gain privileges by passing a kernel address as an argument and overwriting kernel memory locations.