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Secunia Advisory SA13445

Symantec Windows LiveUpdate NetDetect Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory SA13445
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Release Date 2004-12-14
   
Popularity 21,877 views
Comments 0 comments

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 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
Symantec Windows LiveUpdate 2.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

Secure Network Operations has reported a vulnerability in Symantec Windows LiveUpdate, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to Symantec Automatic LiveUpdate allowing manipulation of certain Internet options with SYSTEM privileges. This can be exploited via the LiveUpdate GUI during an interactive LiveUpdate session when running the scheduled "NetDetect" task.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary commands with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability has been reported in LiveUpdate prior to version 2.5.

The following products include LiveUpdate and are affected:
Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2001-2004
Symantec Norton AntiVirus and Pro 2001-2004
Symantec Norton Internet Security and Pro 2001-2004
Symantec AntiVirus for Handhelds Retail and Corporate Edition v3.0


Solution
Update to Symantec Windows LiveUpdate version 2.5.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Secure Network Operations

Original Advisory
Symantec:
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.12.13a.html

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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