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Secunia Advisory SA40233

Symantec AppStream / Workspace Streaming Authentication Security Bypass
Secunia Advisory SA40233
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Release Date 2010-06-17
Last Update 2010-06-18
   
Popularity 1,577 view
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From local network
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
   
Software:
Symantec AppStream Client 5.x
Symantec Workspace Streaming 6.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-4389 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec AppStream and Symantec Workspace Streaming, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to the client not properly verifying the authenticity of a server, which can be exploited to impersonate a legitimate server and e.g. upload and execute arbitrary files on the client.

The vulnerability is reported in Symantec AppStream 5.2.x and Symantec Workspace Streaming 6.1.x prior to 6.1 SP4.


Solution
Upgrade or update to Symantec Workspace Streaming 6.1 SP4.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Will Dormann, CERT/CC.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
SYM10-008:
http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2010&suid=20100616_00

US-CERT VU#221257:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/221257

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