Microsoft Windows Kernel vulnerable to privilege escalation

Overview

The Microsoft Windows Kernel contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that may allow a local attacker to take control of the system.

Description

The Microsoft Windows Kernel fails to properly set permissions when mapping to a memory segment. By running a specially crafted application, an attacker may be able to trigger this vulnerability.

For more information, please refer to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-022.

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Impact

A local, authenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

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Solution

Apply an Update
Microsoft was released updates in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-022 to address this issue.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: April 10, 2007

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

Microsoft has published Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-022 in response to this issue. Users are encouraged to review this bulletin and apply the referenced patches.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23337953 Feedback>).

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References

<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-022.mspx&gt;

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-022. Microsoft credits eEye for reporting the vulnerability to them.

This document was written by Katie Steiner.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2007-1206
Severity Metric:	2.30 Date Public: