33628 : Microsoft Windows NDISTAPI.sys Permission Weakness Local DoS
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
6	691	over 4 years ago	about 1 year ago	2 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Vendor Solution Date	Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2006-10-20	2006-10-27	2007-03-12	2007-03-19	2007-03-20

Time to Patch	Time to Vendor Response
143 days	7 days

Description

Microsoft Windows contains a flaw that may allow a local denial of service. The issue is caused due to weak permissions in "ndistapi.sys" allowing user-mode applications write to "Device\NdisTapi". A local attacker can exploit this by sending arbitrary data resulting in a loss of availability.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Patch / RCS
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Currently, there are no known upgrades, patches, or workarounds available to correct this issue. However it seems that Microsoft has corrected this issue for Windows 2003 Server within the release of Service Pack 2.

Products

Microsoft Corporation	Windows	2003 Server SP1
		XP SP2

References

CVE ID: 2007-1537 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 23025
Secunia Advisory ID: 24598
ISS X-Force ID: 33086
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-1031
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-03/0261.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=47
http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5OP0P0AKUA.html

Tools & Filters

	17662 26921

Credit

Rubén Santamarta - Reversemode

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 3.6
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-03-21 | Disagree?

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