CVE-2007-3673 Memory corruption in n/a
Local attackers can escalate privileges by sending a crafted IOCTL request to the symtdi.sys driver, causing memory corruption.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-3673?
CVE-2007-3673 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Symantec Norton Antivirus, published on 15 Jul 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Symantec symtdi.sys before 7.0.0, as distributed in Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9 through 10.1 and Client Security 2.0 through 3.1, Norton AntiSpam 2005, and Norton AntiVirus, Internet Security, Personal Firewall, and System Works 2005 and 2006; allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted Interrupt Request Packet (Irp) in an IOCTL 0x83022323 request to \\symTDI\, which results in memory overwrite.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-3673?
It affects 6 products.
Products include Symantec Client Security, Symantec Norton Antispam, Symantec Norton Antivirus, Symantec Norton Internet Security, Symantec Norton Personal Firewall, Symantec Norton System Works.
How do I fix CVE-2007-3673?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-3673 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2007-3673 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-3673 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Norton Antivirus
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4mpq-wr5h-ghph.