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Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Server Agent Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA29319
Release Date: 2008-03-11
Last Update: 2008-03-25
Popularity: 3,759 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-1473


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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Server Agent, which can be exploited via shatter attacks to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability affects version 6.8.x (all builds).

Solution:
Update to version 6.9.164 (see vendor's advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Brett Moore of Insomnia Security.

Changelog:
2008-03-25: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
SYM008-008:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.03.10.html


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