Four vulnerabilities were identified in Microsoft Windows, which may be exploited by malicious local users to obtain elevated privileges or conduct denial of service attacks.
- The first flaw is due to a buffer overflow error when processing certain fonts, which may be exploited by malicious local users to gain elevated privileges.
- The second vulnerability resides in the process used by Windows to validate certain access requests, which may be exploited by malicious local users to gain elevated privileges.
- The third problem is due to an Object Management error, which may be exploited by malicious local users to cause a denial of service.
- The fourth issue is due to an unspecified error in the Client Server Runtime System (CSRSS), which may be exploited by malicious local users to gain elevated privileges.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by John Heasman, Sanjeev Radhakrishnan, Amit Joshi, Ananta Iyengar and David Fritz
ChangeLog
2005-04-12 : Initial release
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