Symantec Product Security Advisory October 23, 2006 SYM06-022 Symantec Device Driver Elevation of Privilege Risk Impact: Medium Remote Access: No Local Access: Yes Authentication Required: Yes Exploit available: No Overview Symantec was notified of a vulnerability in a device driver which, if successfully exploited, could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges or to crash the system. Affected Products Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.1 Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0.3 and earlier Symantec Client Security 1.1 Symantec Client Security 2.0.3 and earlier Unaffected Products Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.1.1 MR9 Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0.4 and later Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.x Symantec Client Security 3.x Norton AntiVirus 2005 and later Norton Internet Security 2005 and later Norton System Works 2005 and later Details Boon Seng Lim notified Symantec of a vulnerability in SAVRT.SYS which could allow a malicious user to use the output buffer of DeviceIOControl()to overwrite kernel addresses because the address space of the output buffer was not properly validated. A successful exploit could potentially allow a local attacker to execute code of their choice with elevated privileges, or to crash the system. Symantec Response Symantec engineers verified that this issue exists in the affted products list above, and have released updates for currently supported affected products. Symantec is not aware of any customers impacted by this issue, or of any attempts to exploit the issue. Any future updates to this adivsory will be posted in the Symantec Advisory: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.10.23.html Credit Symantec would like to thank Boon Seng Lim for reporting this issue, and working with us on the resolution. CVE This issue is a candidate for inclusion in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) list (http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes names for security problems. The CVE initiative has assigned CVE-2006-3455 to this issue
