Executive Summary

Summary
Title Symantec Endpoint Protection Client contains a kernel pool overflow vulnerability
Informations
Name VU#252068 First vendor Publication 2014-08-04
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2014-08-04
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision M

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Vulnerability Note VU#252068

Symantec Endpoint Protection Client contains a kernel pool overflow vulnerability

Original Release date: 04 Aug 2014 | Last revised: 04 Aug 2014

Overview

Symantec Endpoint Protection Client 11.x and 12.x contains a kernel pool overflow vulnerability.

Description

CWE-788: Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer

An attacker logged into a Windows XP, Vista, 7, or 8 system as an unprivileged user is able to cause a kernel pool overflow in the sysplant driver with specially crafted IOCTL code. The sysplant driver is part of the Application and Device Control functionality in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) client 11.x and 12.x. This feature is enabled by default in SEP client 11.x and 12.x.

Impact

An attacker with user credentials may be able to elevate privileges to SYSTEM and gain full control of the system.

Solution

Apply an Update
Symantec has posted an advisory for this vulnerabilityhere. A patch is now available, the new version is SEP 12.1.4112.4156.

If the patch is unavailable or cannot be installed, consider the following workaround:

Disable the Vulnerable Driver
By default, SEP has Application and Device Control enabled and loads the sysplant driver. Disabling the driver will prevent an attack from being successful, although it will marginally reduce the effectiveness of SEP. Note that the sysplant driver is still loaded if Application and Device Control is disabled either through the SEP client or via policy from the Symantec Endpoint Manager. Disabling the driver via a registry edit and rebooting the system will force it to unload the sysplant driver.

Follow these instructions on Symantec's site to disable the sysplant driver. The sysguard driver does not need to be disabled to mitigate this vulnerability.

Vendor Information (Learn More)

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
SymantecAffected22 Jul 201401 Aug 2014
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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

GroupScoreVector
Base6.8AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Temporal6.1E:F/RL:W/RC:C
Environmental4.6CDP:N/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

  • http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH103259
  • http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/list.jsp?fid=security_advisory
  • http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20140804_00
  • http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/788.html

Credit

Thanks to Matteo Memelli for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Chris King.

Other Information

  • CVE IDs:CVE-2014-3434
  • Date Public:04 Aug 2014
  • Date First Published:04 Aug 2014
  • Date Last Updated:04 Aug 2014
  • Document Revision:20

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Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/252068

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2014-08-07 IAVM : 2014-A-0117 - Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0053633

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-11-16 Symantec Endpoint Protection Sysplant kernel pool overflow exploit attempt
RuleID : 31671 - Revision : 4 - Type : FILE-OTHER
2014-11-16 Symantec Endpoint Protection Sysplant kernel pool overflow exploit attempt
RuleID : 31670 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-08-07 Name : The version of Symantec Endpoint Protection Client installed on the remote ho...
File : symantec_endpoint_prot_client_sym14-013.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-08-08 13:24:54
  • Multiple Updates
2014-08-07 17:25:29
  • Multiple Updates
2014-08-07 00:25:19
  • Multiple Updates
2014-08-05 00:22:21
  • First insertion