CVE
- Id
- 4042
- CVE No.
- CVE-2001-1238
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- Task Manager in Windows 2000 does not allow local users to end processes with uppercase letters named (1) winlogon.exe, (2) csrss.exe, (3) smss.exe and (4) services.exe via the Process tab which could allow local users to install Trojan horses that cannot be stopped with the Task Manager.
- Phase
- Proposed (20020502)
- Votes
- ACCEPT(3) Cole, Frech, Green | NOOP(2) Cox, Foat | REJECT(1) Baker | REVIEWING(1) Wall
- Comments
- Baker> I don"t think this is really a vulnerability. If I am not mistaken, | those are "services" which have to be managed by the services control | in windows 2K. This keeps users from killing things the system has | to have. I don"t think it is possible to kill another of other services | in this manner either. Try it on almost any W2K system, and there are any | number of services that you cannot kill from the process tab, rather you | must go to the services controller to stop the service. | I vote to reject this, as this is not a vulnerability, since you would have | to be administrator on the system to change one of these services to a trojan | version anyway.
