Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 24, 2007· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2007-5040

Description

Ghost Security Suite alpha 1.200 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, (2) NtCreateThread, (3) NtDeleteValueKey, (4) NtQueryValueKey, (5) NtSetSystemInformation, and (6) NtSetValueKey kernel SSDT hooks.

Affected products

Ghostsecurity/Ghost Security Suite
cpe:2.3:a:ghostsecurity:ghost_security_suite:alpha_1.200:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

securityreason.com/securityalert/3161nvd
www.matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.phpnvd
www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.phpnvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threadednvd

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