HTC HD7 'HTCUtility.dll' IOCTL Security Bypass Vulnerability

BID:50697

Info

HTC HD7 'HTCUtility.dll' IOCTL Security Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 50697
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 16 2011 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 16 2011 12:00AM
Credit: Alex Plaskett of MWR InfoSecurity
Vulnerable: HTC HTC HD7 0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

HTC HD7 'HTCUtility.dll' IOCTL Security Bypass Vulnerability

HTC HD7 is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to read or write arbitrary data from or to kernel memory. This may allow the attacker to execute code in the context of kernel by bypassing security restrictions.

Exploit / POC

HTC HD7 'HTCUtility.dll' IOCTL Security Bypass Vulnerability

An attacker must trick a victim into installing a malicious application to exploit this issue.

Solution / Fix

HTC HD7 'HTCUtility.dll' IOCTL Security Bypass Vulnerability

Solution:
Reports indicate that a vendor fix is available. Please contact the vendor for more information.

References

HTC HD7 'HTCUtility.dll' IOCTL Security Bypass Vulnerability

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