Windows 2000 Local Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2001-1347 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Windows 2000 allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges by setting a hardware breakpoint that is handled using global debug registers, which could cause other processes to terminate due to an exception, and allow hijacking of resources such as named pipes.

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