FrSIRT - Intel LAN Driver "NDIS.SYS" Local Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Intel LAN Driver "NDIS.SYS" Local Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Intel LAN Driver "NDIS.SYS" Local Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-4871
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6385
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-12-06

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in PCI, PCI-X and PCIe Intel network adapter drivers, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the "QueryInformationHandler" routine within NDIS.SYS, which could allow malicious users to execute arbitrary commands with kernel-level privileges.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Derek Soeder (eEye Digital Security)

ChangeLog

2006-12-06 : Initial release
2006-12-07 : Updated Advisory

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