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Title : Lenovo Rescue and Recovery Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2806
CVE ID : CVE-2008-4589
CWE ID : CWE-119
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-10-14

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A vulnerability has been identified in Lenovo Rescue and Recovery, which could be exploited by local attackers to gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by a heap overflow error in the "tvtumon.sys" driver when processing an overly long filename passed through the filesystem, which could allow local unprivileged users to crash an affected system or execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Chris Clark and Rachel Engel (iSEC Partners).

ChangeLog

2008-10-14 : Initial release

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