From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2007 - 17:32:12 CDT

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TITLE:
Symantec Products SYMTDI.SYS IOCTL Handler Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26042

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26042/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Symantec Norton AntiSpam 2005
http://secunia.com/product/14763/
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2005
http://secunia.com/product/4009/
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006
http://secunia.com/product/6634/
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005
http://secunia.com/product/4848/
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2006
http://secunia.com/product/6635/
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2005
http://secunia.com/product/6637/
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006
http://secunia.com/product/6638/
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2005
http://secunia.com/product/4847/
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2006
http://secunia.com/product/6636/
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.x
http://secunia.com/product/3549/
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.x
http://secunia.com/product/5555/
Symantec Client Security 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3478/
Symantec Client Security 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/6649/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in various Symantec products, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.

Insufficient address space verification within the 0x83022323 IOCTL
handler in SYMTDI.SYS can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary memory
and execute code with kernel privileges via specially crafted IRP
parameters passed to the affected IOCTL handler.

The vulnerability is reported in SYMTDI.SYS versions prior to 7.0.0
and affects the following products:
* Norton AntiSpam 2005
* Norton AntiVirus 2005/2006
* Norton Internet Security 2005/2006
* Norton Personal Firewall 2005/2006
* Norton System Works 2005/2006
* Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.x
* Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.0/10.1
* Symantec Client Security 2.0/3.0/3.1

SOLUTION:
Apply updates or run LiveUpdate. Please see the vendor's advisory for
details.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Zohiartze Herce, reported via iDefense Labs.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.07.11d.html

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=554

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