Race condition in Trend Micro Internet Security - #VU7210

 

Race condition in Trend Micro Internet Security - #VU7210

Published: June 27, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7210
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Trend Micro
Affected software:
Trend Micro Internet Security

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
 
The weakness exists due to  a race condition in 'tmusa.sys' in processing IOCTL 0x222813. A local attacker can run a specially crafted application to modify a field used by the kernel and gain system privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in privilege escalation.

Remediation

Update to version 11.1.1045.

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