====================================================================== Secunia Research 18/02/2011 - Panda Products APPFLT.SYS 6660E18h IOCTL Vulnerability - ====================================================================== Table of Contents Affected Software....................................................1 Severity.............................................................2 Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3 Description of Vulnerability.........................................4 Solution.............................................................5 Time Table...........................................................6 Credits..............................................................7 References...........................................................8 About Secunia........................................................9 Verification........................................................10 ====================================================================== 1) Affected Software * Panda Global Protection 2010 (APPFLT.SYS version 2.3.0.8) * Panda Global Protection 2011 (APPFLT.SYS version 2.3.0.10) * Panda Internet Security 2011 (APPFLT.SYS version 2.3.0.10) NOTE: Other versions may also be affected. ====================================================================== 2) Severity Rating: Less critical Impact: Privilege escalation Where: Local system ====================================================================== 3) Vendor's Description of Software "Protect yourself from all kinds of online threats: virus, hackers, online fraud, identity theft and all other known and unknown malware". Product Link: http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/global-protection/ ====================================================================== 4) Description of Vulnerability Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in various Panda products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. The vulnerability is caused by missing input validation in the APPFLT.SYS driver when processing the 6660E18h IOCTL. This can be exploited to e.g. write data to a semi-arbitrary virtual memory address. ====================================================================== 5) Solution Apply hotfixes available from Panda Security. ====================================================================== 6) Time Table 11/02/2011 - Vendor notified. 15/02/2011 - Vendor response. 18/02/2011 - Public disclosure. ====================================================================== 7) Credits Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research. ====================================================================== 8) References The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned CVE-2011-0328 for the vulnerability. ====================================================================== 9) About Secunia Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence relevant to their specific system configuration: https://www.flexera.com/advisories/business_solutions/ Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory database as a service to the security community and private individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security.advisories/ Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the security and reliability of software in general: https://www.flexera.com/about-us/secunia-research/advisories/ Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below to see currently vacant positions: https://www.flexera.com/corporate/jobs/ Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories: https://www.flexera.com/advisories/mailing_lists/ ====================================================================== 10) Verification Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website: https://www.flexera.com/about-us/secunia-research/advisories/sr-2011-9.html Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research: https://www.flexera.com/about-us/secunia-research/advisories/ ======================================================================