SB2017070504 - Privilege escalation in Dell Protected Workspace and Invicea-X
Published: July 5, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017070504
Severity
Low
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Privilege escalation (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9038)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.The weakness exists due to double fetch race condition in the SboxDrv.sys driver functionality. A local attacker can send specially crafted data to the \Device\SandboxDriverApi device driver, trigger kernel memory corruption and gain system privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in privilege escalation.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.