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Symantec LiveUpdate for Machintosh Privilege Escalation

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SA19682

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Release Date:

2006-04-18

Last Update:

2006-04-26

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh 3.x
Symantec Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.x
Symantec Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 9.x
Symantec Norton Internet Security for Macintosh 3.x
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall for Macintosh 3.x
Symantec Norton SystemWorks for Macintosh 3.x
Symantec Norton Utilities for Macintosh 8.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec LiveUpdate for Machintosh, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to certain components not setting their execution path environment, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary programs with System Administrative privileges.

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