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TITLE:
Microsoft Products Malware Protection Engine Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43468

VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/43468/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=43468

RELEASE DATE:
2011-03-10

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/43468/#comments

AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
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 * Criticality Level
 * Impact
 * Where
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http://secunia.com/advisories/43468/

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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=43468

ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI:
 * AUTOMATED SCANNING

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in Microsoft Malware
Protection Engine during scanning and can be exploited to gain
LocalSystem privileges by setting a specially crafted value for a
registry key.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.1.6502.0 and prior of
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine.

SOLUTION:
Ensure that systems are running version 1.1.6603.0 or later of
Microsoft Malware Protection Engine. Typically, malware definitions
and updates for Microsoft Malware Protection Engine are applied
automatically. An updated version of Malicious Software Removal Tool
was released on Tuesday, March 8th 2011.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Cesar Cerrudo, Argeniss.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2491888.mspx

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXTENDED SOLUTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXPLOIT:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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