>> Microsoft Windows XP I2O Filter Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Title : Microsoft Windows XP I2O Filter Privilege Escalation Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1476 CVE ID : CVE-2008-0322
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-05-13
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows XP, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by input validation errors in the I2O Filter Utility Driver (i2omgmt.sys) and insecure permissions being set on the "\\.\I2OExc" device interface (write access granted to "Everyone"), which could be exploited by unprivileged users to overwrite arbitrary memory addresses and execute malicious code with kernel privileges.
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