---------------------------------------------------------------------- (PT-2009-09) Positive Technologies Security Advisory Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2009 tmactmon.sys Priviliege Escalation Vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---[ Affected Software ] Trend Micro: Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2008 Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 Product Link: http://www.trendmicro.com ---[ Severity Rating ] Severity: Medium Impact: Priviliege Escalation Attack Vector: Local CVSS v2: Base Score: 6.9 Temporal Score: 6.6 Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:F/RL:U/RC:C) CVE: CVE-2009-0686 ---[ Software Description ] Trend Micro(TM) Internet Security Pro provides comprehensive protection against viruses, Trojan horse programs, worms, and other threats, including network viruses and rootkits. It also blocks spyware, hackers, phishing fraud attempts, and unwanted Web sites. It can filter your email messages for spam as well. ---[ Vulnerability Description ] Positive Technologies Research Team has discovered multiple priviliege escalation vulnerabilities in Trend Micro products. The IOCTL handler in tmactmon.sys uses the METHOD_NEITHER communication method for IOCTLs and does not properly validate buffer data associated with the Irp object, which allows local users to gain SYSTEM privilieges. ---[ Solution ] Not available. ---[ Disclosure Timeline ] 02.04.2009 - Vendor notified no response 02.12.2009 - Second notification no response 03.31.2009 - Vulnerability details disclosed by third party 03.31.2009 - Public disclosure ---[ Credits ] This vulnerability was discovered by Nikita Tarakanov, Positive Technologies Research Team. ---[ References ] http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-09 http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Positive Technologies Research Team: http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/ http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp ---[ About Positive Technologies ] Positive Technologies www.ptsecurity.com is among the key players in the IT security market in Russia. The principal activities of the company include the development of integrated tools for information security monitoring (MaxPatrol); providing IT security consulting services and technical support; the development of the Securitylab en.securitylab.ru leading Russian information security portal. Among the clients of Positive Technologies there are more than 40 state enterprises, more than 50 banks and financial organizations, 20 telecommunication companies, more than 40 plant facilities, as well as IT, service and retail companies from Russia, CIS countries, Baltic States, China, Ecuador, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Iran, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South African Republic, Thailand, Turkey and USA. Positive Technologies is a team of highly skilled developers, advisers and experts with years of vast hands-on experience. The company specialists possess professional titles and certificates; they are the members of various international societies and are actively involved in the IT security field development.