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Microsoft Windows Virtual Address Descriptor Privilege Escalation

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SA32251

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Release Date:

2008-10-14

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

OS:

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error when processing Virtual Address Descriptor (VAD) parameters. This can be exploited to cause a memory allocation mapping error and corrupt memory.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.

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