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TITLE:
CA Personal Firewall HIPS Drivers Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22972

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22972/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
CA Personal Firewall 2007 9.x
http://secunia.com/product/12660/

DESCRIPTION:
Rubén Santamarta has reported some vulnerabilities in CA Personal
Firewall, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain
escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors in the HIPS Core
(KmxStart.sys) and HIPS Firewall (KmxFw.sys) drivers. This can be
exploited to modify some implemented callbacks via certain privileged
IOCTLs.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with Ring0
privileges.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 6.5.4.10 of KmxStart.sys
and version 6.5.4.31 of KmxFw.sys included in CA Personal Firewall
2007. Other versions and products may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

The vendor is reportedly working on the patches.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Rubén Santamarta, reversemode.com.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Reversemode.com:
http://www.reversemode.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=2&func=fileinfo&id=38

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