Lenovo Resuce And Recovery 4.20.0512 memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Lenovo Resuce And Recovery 4.20.0512. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component Recovery. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the tvtumin.sys kernel driver in Lenovo Rescue and Recovery 4.20, including 4.20.0511 and 4.20.0512, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long file name.

The bug was discovered 10/10/2008. The weakness was disclosed 10/15/2008 by Chris Clark (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-4589 since 10/15/2008. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 34432 (Lenovo Rescue and Recovery tvtumon.sys Filename Handling Local Overflow), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (45839) and Tenable (34432).

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 34432
Nessus Name: Lenovo Rescue and Recovery tvtumon.sys Filename Handling Local Overflow
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: lenovo.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Chris Clark
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-4589 (🔍)
X-Force: 45839
SecurityTracker: 1021041
Vulnerability Center: 19758 - Lenovo Rescue and Recovery 4.20 Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Allows Local Code Execution, High
SecurityFocus: 31737 - Lenovo Rescue and Recovery 'tvtumon.sys' Heap Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 32252
OSVDB: 49122 - Lenovo - Rescue and Recovery - 'tvtumon.sys' Heap Overflow Issue
Vupen: ADV-2008-2806

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/18/2019 20:19
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (65), 08/18/2019 20:19 (12)
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