TITLE:
Cisco VPN Client Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20261

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Cisco VPN Client 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/1574/
Cisco VPN Client 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/124/
Cisco VPN Client 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/123/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco VPN Client, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges on a
vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the GUI
(also known as the "VPN client dialer") and can be exploited to
execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x,
4.6.x, 4.7.x (except version 4.7.00.0533), and 4.8.00.x for Windows.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.8.01.0300.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/windows

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
* Andrew Christensen, FortConsult.
* Johan Ronkainen

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20060524-vpnclient.shtml

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