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Secunia Advisory SA10222

Symantec pcAnywhere Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA10222
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Release Date 2003-11-14
   
Popularity 9,163 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Symantec pcAnywhere 10.x
Symantec pcAnywhere 11.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2003-0936 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Symantec pcAnywhere allowing malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability is a variant of a Windows vulnerability, which previously has been fixed by Microsoft:
SA10066

The problem is that when Symantec pcAnywhere runs in "service-mode", local users can interact with the AWHOST32 process through the icon in the system tray. pcAnywhere runs with System privileges.


Solution
An update is available via LiveUpdate.

Provided and/or discovered by
KF

Original Advisory
Symantec pcAnywhere Service-Mode Help File Elevation of Privilege
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/security/Content/2003.11.13.html

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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