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Fortinet FortiClient Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA28975
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Release Date:
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2008-02-14
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Last Update:
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2008-02-15
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Popularity:
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4,308 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: | Fortinet FortiClient 3.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Ruben Santamarta has reported a vulnerability in Fortinet FortiClient, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the fortimon.sys filter driver and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via a specially crafted request to the device driver.
The vulnerability affects versions 3.0 MR5 Patch3 and prior.
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