full-disclosure - EEYE: Windows VDM #UD Local Privilege Escalation

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From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (Barry Fitzgerald)
Subject: EEYE: Windows VDM #UD Local Privilege Escalation

KF_lists wrote:

> ISS would like to have you believe otherwise...  when I contacted them 
> about the Local SYSTEM escalation in BlackICE we went in circles over 
> the fact that I feel that taking local SYSTEM on a win32 box IS a 
> problem and they don't. They tryed to say some crap like "in all our 
> years in the industry we have never had a customer state that local 
> windows security was a concern... blah blah (paraphrasing)". And 
> something along the lines of "Windows is not a true multi-user system 
> (like unix) so local escalation means nothing."
>
> -KF
>
>  

*feigned look of surprise*

Then how do they explain trojan horses, adware, and spyware?!?

          -Barry