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Novell Client nicm.sys Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA28396
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Release Date:
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2008-01-10
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Last Update:
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2008-01-21
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Popularity:
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5,529 views
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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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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Novell Client for Windows NT/2000/XP 4.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Novell Client, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in nicm.sys when handling arguments passed to certain IOCTL handlers. This can be exploited to e.g. overwrite arbitrary kernel memory and execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.
The vulnerability affects versions 4.91 SP3 and SP4.
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