CVE-2007-5041

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

G DATA InternetSecurity 2007 does not properly validate certain parameters to System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function handlers, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via the (1) NtCreateKey and (2) NtOpenProcess kernel SSDT hooks.

Affected products

Gdata Internetsecurity 2007: all versions

References

http://osvdb.org/45896
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3161
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threaded
http://osvdb.org/45896
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3161
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threaded

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