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Microsoft Windows Plug-and-Play Service Buffer Overflows
Secunia Advisory: SA17166
Release Date: 2005-10-11
Last Update: 2006-07-10
Popularity: 14,988 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows XP Embedded
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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Description:
eEye Digital Security has reported some vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges, or by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to insecure use of the "wsprintfW()" function in the Plug-and-Play service (umpnpmgr.dll) within the "GetDeviceInstanceListSize()", "GetDeviceInstanceList()", and "GetInstanceList()" functions. This can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows and allows arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges.

On Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP1, the vulnerabilities can be exploited by an authenticated user via a specially crafted network message sent to the UMPNPMGR RPC interface of a vulnerable system. On Windows XP SP2, the vulnerability can only be exploited for local privilege escalation.

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