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Kaspersky Anti-Virus Insecure Log Directory Security Issue
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16425
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Release Date:
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2005-08-15
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Last Update:
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2005-08-18
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Popularity:
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6,774 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-2582
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Description:
Dr. Peter Bieringer has reported a security issue in Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux File Server, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to insecure default directory permissions of the log directory "/var/log/kav/5.5/kav4unix/". This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with privileges of the root user.
The security issue has been reported in version 5.5-2. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 5.5-3.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Dr. Peter Bieringer
Changelog:
2005-08-18: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
ftp://ftp.aerasec.de/pub/advisories/kav4unix/kav4unix-local-root-exploit.txt
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