Security Advisory SA26435 - Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Aclient Log File Viewer Privilege Escalation

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Secunia Advisory SA26435

Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Aclient Log File Viewer Privilege Escalation

Secunia Advisory

SA26435

Release Date

2007-08-14

Last Update

2007-10-22

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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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Software:

Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-4380 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec's Altiris Deployment Solution, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The problem is that the Aclient process runs with local System privileges and allows for the Log File Viewer to open or execute arbitrary files with SYSTEM privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in version 6.x build 282 and earlier.

Solution
Update to 6.8 SP2 (6.8.378).
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
Mazin Faour, Information Risk Management.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.08.13.html

Information Risk Management:
http://www.irmplc.com/index.php/152-Advisory-022

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