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Secunia Advisory SA9224

Windows 2000 Utility Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA9224
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Release Date 2003-07-09
   
Popularity 11,517 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2003-0350 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Windows 2000, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a validation error in the way the Utility Manager handles Windows messages. This can be exploited by running a specially crafted program, which sends a special Windows message to the Utility Manager allowing arbitrary code to be run with escalated privileges.

Successful exploitation grants Local System privileges to the malicious user.


Solution
Apply patch or Service Pack 4.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Chris Paget (Next Generation Security Software).

Original Advisory
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-025.asp

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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