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Symantec Products SYMTDI.SYS IOCTL Handler Privilege Escalation

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SA26042

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Release Date:

2007-07-12

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.x
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.x
Symantec Client Security 2.x
Symantec Client Security 3.x
Symantec Norton AntiSpam 2005
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2005
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2006
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2005
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2005
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2006

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in various Symantec products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

Insufficient address space verification within the 0x83022323 IOCTL handler in SYMTDI.SYS can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary memory and execute code with kernel privileges via specially crafted IRP parameters passed to the affected IOCTL handler.

The vulnerability is reported in SYMTDI.SYS versions prior to 7.0.0 and affects the following products:
* Norton AntiSpam 2005
* Norton AntiVirus 2005/2006
* Norton Internet Security 2005/2006
* Norton Personal Firewall 2005/2006
* Norton System Works 2005/2006
* Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.x
* Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.0/10.1
* Symantec Client Security 2.0/3.0/3.1

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