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>> Microsoft Windows Macrovision Security Driver Privilege Escalation Issue

Title : Microsoft Windows Macrovision Security Driver Privilege Escalation Issue
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3537
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5586 - CVE-2007-5587
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-10-19

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A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error in the Macrovision Security Driver (secdrv.sys) when processing user-supplied data, which could be exploited by local unprivileged attackers to gain Ring0 privileges and take complete control of an affected system.

Note : This vulnerability is reportedly being exploited in the wild.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Ruben Santamarta.

ChangeLog

2007-10-19 : Initial release
2007-11-05 : Updated References
2007-11-06 : Updated Solution
2007-12-11 : Updated Solution

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