CVE-2003-0910

CVE-2003-0910 concerns a privilege-elevation flaw in the Local Descriptor Table (LDT) interface on Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. An attacker must be locally logged on to exploit by creating a malicious LDT entry to gain access to protected memory; Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are not aff...

Microsoft Windows fails to properly create entries in the Local Descriptor Table (LDT)

Overview Microsoft Windows NT4.0 and Windows 2000 contain a vulnerability that could permit a local user to gain elevated privileges on the system. Description Microsoft Windows NT4.0 and Windows 2000 provide an API to the kernel to create Local Descriptor Tables LDT for applications. A failure t...

Microsoft Windows Local Descriptor Table Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows Local Descriptor Table programming interface is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability. A local attacker may be able to create a malicious entry in the Local Descriptor Table. This entry may point into protected memory. Since this memory space is reserved for...

CVE-2002-0766

CVE-2002-0766 affects OpenBSD 2.9–3.1. Local users can exhaust the kernel’s file descriptor table and gain root by filling fds and closing 0, 1, or 2 before executing a privileged process, in a scenario not correctly handled when an alternate descriptor cannot be opened. The issue is a race in fd...

CVE-2001-0268

The i386setldt system call in NetBSD 1.5 and earlier, and OpenBSD 2.8 and earlier, when the USERLDT kernel option is enabled, does not validate a call gate target, which allows local users to gain root privileges by creating a segment call gate in the Local Descriptor Table LDT with a target that...