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Posted on 13 February 2013
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TITLE:
Microsoft Windows Kernel Multiple Privilege Escalation
Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA52157
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RELEASE DATE:
2013-02-12
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DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Windows,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.
1) A race condition error when handling certain objects in memory can
be exploited to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
2) Another race condition error when handling certain objects in
memory can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with kernel
privileges.
3) An error when handling the reference counter for certain objects
in memory can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with kernel
privileges.
SOLUTION:
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1, 2) The vendor credits Gynvael Coldwind and Mateusz "j00ru"
Jurczyk, Google.
3) Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS13-017 (KB2799494):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-017
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