(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.