MS10-059: Vulnerabilities in the Tracing Feature for Services Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (982799)

high Nessus Plugin ID 48296

Synopsis

The remote Windows host has multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Tracing Feature for Services on the remote host has the following vulnerabilities :

- Windows places incorrect ACLs on registry keys, which could allow an attacker to execute code with elevated privileges. (CVE-2010-2554)

- Memory is allocated in an unspecified, unsafe manner when processing specially crafted long strings. An attacker could exploit this to execute code with elevated privileges. (CVE-2010-2555)

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Windows Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2.

See Also

https://www.nessus.org/u?917511fb

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 48296

File Name: smb_nt_ms10-059.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 8/11/2010

Updated: 8/5/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2010

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2554, CVE-2010-2555

BID: 42259, 42269

IAVB: 2010-B-0064-S

MSFT: MS10-059

MSKB: 982799