WinPcap NPF.SYS Local Privilege Escalation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25684

Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains an application that is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

WinPcap, a packet capture and filtering engine, is installed on the remote Windows host.

The version of WinPcap on the remote host enables a local user to execute arbitrary code in kernel context because it fails to sufficiently sanitize Interrupt Request Packet parameters before passing them to the BIOCGSTATS IOCTL.

Solution

Upgrade to WinPcap version 4.0.1 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25684

File Name: winpcap_npf_sys_priv_escalation.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 7/10/2007

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2007

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3681

BID: 24829

Detections

Analytics