TITLE:
Symantec LiveUpdate for Machintosh Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19682

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19682/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Symantec Norton Utilities for Macintosh 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/5953/
Symantec Norton SystemWorks for Macintosh 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5952/
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall for Macintosh 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5950/
Symantec Norton Internet Security for Macintosh 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5951/
Symantec Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 9.x
http://secunia.com/product/5948/
Symantec Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.x
http://secunia.com/product/5949/
Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5954/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec LiveUpdate for
Machintosh, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to certain components not setting
their execution path environment, which can be exploited to execute
arbitrary programs with System Administrative privileges.

SOLUTION:
Apply latest LiveUpdate patch.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits DigitalMunition.com.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.04.17b.html

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