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Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Directory Traversal and Privilege Escalation
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA27412
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Release Date:
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2007-10-31
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Last Update:
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2007-11-07
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Popularity:
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4,252 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-5838
CVE-2007-3874
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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information and by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
1) The Aclient process runs with SYSTEM privileges and allows opening and execution of arbitrary files with SYSTEM privileges via the browser option.
2) An input validation error in the tftp/mftp service included in the PXE server component can be exploited to download arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 6.x SP2 (#1) and 6.8 SP2 (#2).
Solution:
Update to version 6.8.380.0 (see vendor's advisories for more information).
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Mazin Faour, Information Risk Management
2) Manuel Santamarina Suarez, reported via iDefense
Changelog:
2007-11-01: Updated advisory based on additional information from iDefense Labs.
2007-11-07: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.10.31a.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.10.31.html
iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=619
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