National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4315
Original release date:08/13/2007
Last revised:10/18/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The AMD ATI atidsmxx.sys 3.0.502.0 driver on Windows Vista allows local users to bypass the driver signing policy, write to arbitrary kernel memory locations, and thereby gain privileges via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by "Purple Pill".
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 25265
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26448
External Source: MISC
Name: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=438
External Source: MISC
Name: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=427
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)