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TITLE:
Panda Anti-Rootkit RKPavProc.sys IOCTL Handling Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA40506

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-07-07

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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Panda Anti-Rootkit, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) and gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within the RKPavProc.sys
kernel driver when processing certain IOCTLs.

For more information:
SA40462

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to trusted users.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
NT Internals

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
NT Internals NTIADV0905:
http://www.ntinternals.org/ntiadv0905/ntiadv0905.html

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