CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-5667
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-11-14
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
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.
Affected configurations
• novell client 4.91
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=626 labs.idefense.com
- http://osvdb.org/40867 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27678 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26420 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018943 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3846 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38434 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/98/3260263_f.SAL_Public.html Patch
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=626 labs.idefense.com
- http://osvdb.org/40867 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27678 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26420 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018943 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3846 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38434 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/98/3260263_f.SAL_Public.html Patch