SB2016110902 - Two privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows
Published: November 9, 2016
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Privilege escalation (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7222)
A local attacker can obtain elevated privileges.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling UNC paths in Windows Task Scheduler. A local authenticated user can create a task with specially crafted UNC path and execute it with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges on vulnerable system.
2) Privilege escalation (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7221)
A local attacker can obtain elevated privileges.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when loading DDL file in Windows Input Method Editor (IME). A local authenticated user can cause IME to load a specially crafted DLL file and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges on vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.