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>> Symantec Products "SYMTDI.SYS" Device Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Symantec Products "SYMTDI.SYS" Device Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2507
CVE ID : CVE-2007-3673
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-07-12


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A vulnerability has been identified in various Symantec products, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused due to improper address space validation within the "SYMTDI.SYS" device driver when processing IOCTL 0x83022323, which could be exploited by malicious users to overwrite arbitrary memory addresses and execute code with elevated privileges.

Affected Products

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 System Works 2005
Symantec Norton System Works 2006
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.x
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.x
Symantec Client Security 2.x
Symantec Client Security 3.x

Solution

Apply patches :
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.07.11d.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2507
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.07.11d.html
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=554

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Zohiartze Herce and iDefense Labs.

ChangeLog

2007-07-12 : Initial release

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