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TITLE:
Realtek HD Audio Codec Driver Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29953

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29953/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data, Exposure of system information, Exposure of
sensitive information, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Realtek HD Audio Codec Driver 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/18468/

DESCRIPTION:
Ruben Santamarta has reported some vulnerabilities in Realtek HD
Audio Codec drivers, which can be exploited by malicious, local users
to disclose certain information, manipulate certain data, or gain
escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to input validation errors when
handling certain IOCTL requests and can be exploited to create, read,
or write arbitrary registry keys or to execute arbitrary code with
kernel privileges.

The vulnerabilities are reported in RTKVHDA.sys and RTKVHDA64.sys
versions prior to 6.0.1.5605.

SOLUTION:
Update to the latest versions.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Ruben Santamarta, Wintercore

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.wintercore.com/advisories/advisory_W010408.html

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