40867 : Novell Client NWFILTER.SYS Local Privilege Escalation
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Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date
2007-09-25	2007-09-25	2007-11-12

Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : NWFILTER.SYS in Novell Client 4.91 SP 1 through SP 4 for Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 makes the \.\nwfilter device available for arbitrary user-mode input via METHOD_NEITHER IOCTLs, which allows local users to gain privileges by passing a kernel address as an argument and overwriting kernel memory locations.

Classification

Exploit: Exploit Private

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1018943
CVE ID: 2007-5667 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 26420
Secunia Advisory ID: 27678
ISS X-Force ID: 38434
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-3846
Other Advisory URL: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=626
Novell:
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/98/3260263_f.SAL_Public.html

Credit

Stephen Fewer - iDefense Labs VCP

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.2
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-11-14 | Disagree?

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