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CVE-2008-1084 is an unspecified local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows kernel affecting Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Windows Vista through SP1, and Windows Server 2008. The issue is described as stemming from improper input validation in kernel code. Later reporting identified one affected function as NtUserFnOUTSTRING in win32k.sys. A local attacker can trigger the flaw via unknown vectors to execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel.
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Windows privilege escalation vulnerability exploited by Carberp.
Windows privilege escalation vulnerability exploited by Carberp.
Windows privilege escalation vulnerability exploited by Carberp.
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