SB2017082102 - Privilege escalation in Bitdefender
Published: August 21, 2017 Updated: August 23, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017082102
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
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-2017-10950)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Total Security.The weakness exist due to the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. A local attacker can trigger double-free error within processing of the 0x8000E038 IOCTL in the bdfwfpf driver and execute arbitrary code with system privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.