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TITLE:
Cisco Secure Services Client Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24258

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http://secunia.com/advisories/24258/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Cisco Secure Services Client 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/13533/
Cisco Trust Agent 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/13534/
Cisco Trust Agent 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/13535/
Cisco Security Agent (CSA) 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/12423/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Cisco Secure Services
Client, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
knowledge of sensitive information or gain escalated privileges.

1) Various design errors can be exploited to gain escalated
privileges via e.g. the help functionality, when launching programs,
by injecting threads, and when parsing commands.

2) When using various authentication methods, the user's password is
stored in cleartext in the application log files.

The vulnerabilities affect the following versions and prior:
* Cisco Secure Services Client 4.x versions
* Cisco Trust Agent 1.x and 2.x versions
* Cisco Security Agent (CSA) bundle versions 5.0 and 5.1
* Meetinghouse AEGIS SecureConnect Client (Windows)

SOLUTION:
Update to a fixed version (see vendor advisory for details).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Cisco Systems:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070221-supplicant.shtml

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