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Dell TrueMobile WLAN Card Utility Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10949
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Release Date:
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2004-02-23
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | Dell TrueMobile WLAN Card Utility
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This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
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Description:
Ian Vitek has reported a vulnerability in Dell TrueMobile WLAN Card Utility, allowing malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.
The problem is that the tray icon provides a short cut to "Help" and that the help utility is executed with SYSTEM privileges. This can be exploited to open arbitrary programs with SYSTEM privileges.
Solution:
Do not use the software on systems with untrusted users.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Ian Vitek
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