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TITLE:
Microsoft Internet Information Services Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28849

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28849/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/17543/
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6
http://secunia.com/product/1438/
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/39/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Internet Information
Services (IIS), which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
file change notifications in the "FTPRoot", "NNTPFile\Root", and
"WWWRoot" folders. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code
with SYSTEM privileges.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b24f34fb-40b9-4aa5-b5ac-e3f0a6062753

Windows XP Professional SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=73d24fcf-bea9-4b13-9f1c-4e068c53a4ae

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=103a6bc0-034a-443d-b1d4-81117820dcb2

Windows Server 2003 SP1 / SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=516ef8e8-3cb6-4660-b771-3c7f66917a11

Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (optionally SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e24fb33c-67b9-4ed4-9317-b5fd535d005a

Windows Server 2003 with SP1/SP2 for Itanium-based systems:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5a4a6083-8c67-4403-8e20-7f2b82178124

Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8c7018ec-ae80-4a30-93fc-0f7386732514

Windows Vista x64 Edition:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4de2fffc-5793-4acf-98ee-1b801e59ae39

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS08-005 (KB942831):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-005.mspx

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