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local privilege elevation vulnerability in NT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan McIndoe Hunt)
Mon Jan 24 15:57:55 2000

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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:57:32 -0500
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This is just an announcement, IS has not evaluated the patch.

-Jonathan

 From Microsoft Security Advisor
http://www.microsoft.com/Security/Bulletins/ms00-003.asp

Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security vulnerability in 
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.  The vulnerability could allow a user logged onto 
a Windows NT 4.0 machine from the keyboard to become an administrator on 
the machine.



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