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Secunia Advisory SA10609

Symantec Automatic LiveUpdate Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA10609
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Release Date 2004-01-13
Last Update 2004-01-14
   
Popularity 17,442 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
   
Software:
Symantec AntiVirus for Handhelds 3.x
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2001
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2003
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2001
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2002
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2003
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2003 Professional
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 Professional
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2001
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2002
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2003
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2004
Symantec Windows LiveUpdate 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2003-0994 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

KF has discovered a vulnerability in Symantec LiveUpdate, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges on a vulnerable system.

The problem is that the Automatic LiveUpdate feature included in various retail products invokes the "LiveUpdate Help" window with SYSTEM privileges when an interactive LiveUpdate session is opened. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on a system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability affects the following products:

* Symantec LiveUpdate 1.70.x through 1.90.x
* Norton SystemWorks 2001-2004
* Norton AntiVirus (and Pro) 2001-2004
* Norton Internet Security (and Pro) 2001-2004
* Symantec AntiVirus for Handhelds v3.0


Solution
Apply fix via LiveUpdate or install LiveUpdate 2.0 manually:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
KF, Secure Network Operations.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Symantec:
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.01.12.html

Secure Network Operations:
http://www.secnetops.biz/research/advisories/SRT2004-01-09-1022.txt

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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