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Novell Client for Windows "NWFILTER.SYS" Privilege Escalation Issue

Title : Novell Client for Windows "NWFILTER.SYS" Privilege Escalation Issue
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-3846
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5667
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-13

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Novell Client for Windows, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges [...]

Affected Products

Novell Client for Windows 2000/XP/2003 4.91 Support Pack 4
Novell Client for Windows 2000/XP/2003 4.91 Support Pack 3
Novell Client for Windows 2000/XP/2003 4.91 Support Pack 2
Novell Client for Windows 2000/XP/2003 4.91 Support Pack 1a
Novell Client for Windows 2000/XP/2003 4.91 Support Pack 1

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Stephen Fewer (Harmony Security) via VeriSign iDefense Labs.

ChangeLog

2007-11-13 : Initial release
2007-11-14 : Updated References

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