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Altiris Deployment Solution Missing Server Authentication Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA12944
Release Date: 2004-10-25
Last Update: 2004-11-08
Popularity: 6,633 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:Altiris Deployment Solution 5.x
Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x

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Description:
Brian Gallagher has reported a security issue in Altiris Deployment Solution, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise certain systems.

The problem is that the Altiris Deployment Solution client agents don't verify the authenticity of the Altiris Deployment Solution server system. This can be exploited by malicious people to install and execute arbitrary code on client systems by running a rogue Altiris Deployment Solution server system on the local network.

The security issue has been reported in versions 5.x and 6.1sp1 and prior.

Solution:
This will be fixed in the upcoming version 6.5.

The exposure can be limited by configuring the client to use a fixed IP address for the Altiris Deployment Solution server system, instead of relying on multicast to locate it.

For more details see the vendors knowledge base article:
http://www.altiris.com/support/forum/...44&refpara=532392&key=akb6859

Provided and/or discovered by:
Brian Gallagher

Changelog:
2004-10-26: Added link to vendor knowledge base article.
2004-11-08: Updated advisory with information about upcoming solution from vendor.

Other References:
Altiris Knowledge Base Article:
http://www.altiris.com/support/forum/...44&refpara=532392&key=akb6859


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