A vulnerability has been identified in WinPcap, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an invalid array indexing within the "bpf_filter_init()" function, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via specially crafted IOCTL requests.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by iDefense Labs.
ChangeLog
2007-11-13 : Initial release
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