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Title : Symantec Gear Device Driver Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2770
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3636
CWE ID : CWE-189
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-10-09

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A vulnerability has been identified in various Symantec products, which could potentially be exploited by local attackers to gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the third-party driver "GEARspiWDM.sys" when processing data from user-space applications, which could allow malicious users to make multiple calls to "IoAttachDevice" and trigger an integer overflow in Windows kernel, leading to arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2769

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Ruben Santamarta (Wintercore).

ChangeLog

2008-10-09 : Initial release

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