CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2827

7.2 HIGH Published 2005-12-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The thread termination routine in the kernel for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 (NTOSKRNL.EXE) allows local users to modify kernel memory and execution flow via steps in which a terminating thread causes Asynchronous Procedure Call (APC) entries to free the wrong data, aka the "Windows Kernel Vulnerability."

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows nt 4.0

References