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Realtek HD Audio Codec Driver Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29953
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Release Date:
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2008-04-24
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Last Update:
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2008-04-28
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Popularity:
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19,245 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Manipulation of data
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
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: | Realtek HD Audio Codec Driver 6.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1931
CVE-2008-1932
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Description:
Ruben Santamarta has reported some vulnerabilities in Realtek HD Audio Codec drivers, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose certain information, manipulate certain data, or gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to input validation errors when handling certain IOCTL requests and can be exploited to create, read, or write arbitrary registry keys or to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
The vulnerabilities are reported in RTKVHDA.sys and RTKVHDA64.sys versions prior to 6.0.1.5605.
Solution:
Update to the latest versions.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Ruben Santamarta, Wintercore
Changelog:
2008-04-28: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.wintercore.com/advisories/advisory_W010408.html
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