Description
Pedestal Software Integrity Protection Driver (IPD) 1.3 and earlier allows privileged attackers, such as rootkits, to bypass file access restrictions to the Windows kernel by using the NtCreateSymbolicLinkObject function to create a symbolic link to (1) \Device\PhysicalMemory or (2) to a drive letter using the subst command.
References
- 20030103 Pedestal Software Security Notice mailing-list
- 20030103 Another way to bypass Integrity Protection Driver ('subst' vuln) mailing-list
- 6511 vdb-entry
- http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=59&a=16
- ipd-ntcreatesymboliclinkobject-subs-symlink(10979) vdb-entry
- 7816 third-party-advisory