QuickHeal Antivirus 2010 Privilege Escalation

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Application: QuickHeal antivirus 2010 Local Privilege Escalation  
  
Platforms: Windows Vista SP2  
  
Exploitation: Local Privilege Escalation  
  
Date: 2009-12-16  
  
Author: Francis Provencher (Protek Research Lab's)  
  
  
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1) Introduction  
2) Technical details  
3) The Code (N/A)  
  
  
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1) Introduction  
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QuickHeal antivirus 2010  
  
Quick Heal AntiVirus 2010, with its intuitive and easy-to-use interface, provides hassle-free protection for your system. Once  
  
installed it acts as a shield against viruses, worms, trojans, spywares and other malicious threats. It also provides protection  
  
against new and unknown viruses using Quick Heal's renowned DNAScan technology, and blocks malicious websites. Quick Heal AntiVirus  
  
2010 is very low on resource usage and gives enhanced protection without slowing down your computer.  
  
(from QuickHeal Anti-virus website)  
  
  
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2) Technical details  
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QuickHeal antivirus 2010  
Build 11.00 (4.0.0.1)  
  
All files under the install folder have Full control for BUILTIN\users and can be replace with malicious files.  
  
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C:\Program Files\Quick Heal\Quick Heal AntiVirus\SCANWSCS.EXE Everyone:(ID)F  
  
  
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3) The Code  
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N\A  
  
  
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(PRL-2009-25)  
  
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