Security Advisory SA26054 - Symantec Products Real-Time Scanner Notification Window Privilege Escalation

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Secunia Advisory SA26054

Symantec Products Real-Time Scanner Notification Window Privilege Escalation

Secunia Advisory

SA26054

Release Date

2007-07-12

Last Update

2007-07-19

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Approve distribution

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.x

Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.x

Symantec Client Security 2.x

Symantec Client Security 3.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-3800 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in some Symantec products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Real-Time scanner (RTVScan) component when displaying a notification window containing information on threats found on a system. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in the following products and versions:
* Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition versions 9.0, 10.0 and 10.1
* Symantec Client Security versions 2.0, 3.0, and 2.1

Solution
Apply updates.
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Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Ali Rhabar, Sysdream.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.07.11c.html

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