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Secunia Advisory SA26042

Symantec Products SYMTDI.SYS IOCTL Handler Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory SA26042
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Release Date 2007-07-12
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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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

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-3673 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

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


Solution
Apply updates or run LiveUpdate. Please see the vendor's advisory for details.

Provided and/or discovered by
Zohiartze Herce, reported via iDefense Labs.

Original Advisory
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.07.11d.html

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=554

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