5258 : Microsoft Windows Virtual DOS Machine Privilege Escalation
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
2	446	over 7 years ago	about 1 year ago	4 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2004-02-09	2004-04-13	2004-04-13

Time to Patch
64 days

Description

Windows contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to gain access to unauthorized privileges. The issue is triggered when an attacker causes code to run in Virtual86 mode without first initializing a Virtual DOS Machine, which may allow the attacker to derefernce a null pointer and execute arbitrary code in kernel space. This flaw may lead to a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Other
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Microsoft has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Microsoft Corporation	Windows	NT 4.0 Workstation SP6a
		NT 4.0 Server SP6a
		NT 4.0 Server, Terminal Server Edition SP 6
		2000 SP2
		2000 SP3
		2000 SP4

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 11064
OVAL ID: 1512 1718
ISS X-Force ID: 15714 15818
CVE ID: 2004-0118 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 5248 5249 5250 5251 5252 5253 5254 5255 5256 5257 5259 5260 5261
SCIP VulDB ID: 608
CERT VU: 783748
Mail List Post: http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-April/020070.html
Other Advisory URL: http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20040413E.html
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20040413E.html [ Link is 404 ]
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS04-011
CIAC Advisory: o-114
US-CERT Cyber Security Alert: TA04-104A

Tools & Filters

	12209

Credit

Derek Soeder - eEye Digital Security

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.2
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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