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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
MS13-077 Vulnerability in Windows Service Control Manager Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2872339) Windows 7 Important 11-09-2013

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker convinces an authenticated user to execute a specially crafted application. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker either must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally or must convince a user to run the attacker’s specially crafted application.
Detailed Information on the risk:
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Service Control Manager (SCM) handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code and take complete control of an affected system.Further information on this exploit is available at : MS13-077

Affected Software

Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)