iSEC Partners Security Advisory - 2008-002-lenovornr - Lenovo Rescue and Recovery 4.20

iSEC Partners Security Advisory - 2008-002-lenovornr
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Lenovo Rescue and Recovery Local Kernel Overflow

Vendor: Lenovo
Vendor URL: http://www.lenovo.com
Versions affected: 4.20
Systems Affected: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Severity: Medium (Local Privilege Escalation)
Authors: Chris Clark <cclark[at]isecpartners[dot]com>
Rachel Engel <rachel[at]isecpartners[dot]com>

Vendor notified: Yes
Public release: 10/10/08
Advisory URL: https://www.isecpartners.com/advisories/2008-02-lenovornr.txt

Summary:

Lenovo Rescue and Recovery monitors system changes and enables users to
quickly restore their systems in the event of failure. One component
of the Rescue and Recovery system is a file system filter driver which
monitors new file writes/reads.

There is a heap overflow in the file system filter kernel driver which
could allow an attacker to overwrite kernel memory leading to elevation
of privilege.

Details:

The tvtumon.sys driver serves as a file system filter driver which
monitors for file creation or changes. Recent lookups are cached within
a kernel lookaside list. If an overly long filename is passed through
the filesystem, then a buffer within the lookaside list will overflow,
leading to kernel memory corruption.

A low privileged user can trigger this corruption from user mode and
potentially escalate privileges to act as part of the kernel. In the
(unlikely) event that a web browser plugin allows opening of long
filenames, there is a chance the corruption could be triggered through a
web page.

Fix Information:

Lenovo has issued a patch and advisory:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-70699.html
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4Q2QAK.html

Thanks to:

Dave Challener, Derek Callaway, Troy Bollinger

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