Privilege elevation in Symantec's Corporate Antivirus
Symantec's anti-virus solution for corporate networks allows local users to elevate their privileges. The company has released updates to close the holes.
The affected Symantec products allow users to adapt error messages produced by what is known as Tamper Protection. The same is true for the messages provided by the "Alert Notification." Yet the software does not validate user input; an exploitation of this format string vulnerability could allow users to execute code with root rights.
The error is present in Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.1, 9.x and 10.0 as well as Symantec Client Security 1.x, 2.x and 3.0. Symantec's security advisory provides links to updates that administrators should install as soon as possible.
- Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition Elevation of Privilege, Advisory from Symantec
- Flaw report from Layered Defense
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