CVE-2004-2339 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2004-2339?

CVE-2004-2339 is a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 16 Aug 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and possibly 2003 allows local users with the SeDebugPrivilege privilege to execute arbitrary code as kernel and read or write kernel memory via the NtSystemDebugControl function, which does not verify its pointer arguments. Note: this issue has been disputed, since Administrator privileges are typically required to exploit this issue, thus privilege boundaries are not crossed

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-2339?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2004-2339?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-2339 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2004-2339 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-2339 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000

• CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-0232 Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1123 Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2002-0367 Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2010-0269 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-56hw-fjf6-ccpj.