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TITLE:
Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Directory Traversal and
Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27412

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27412/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/4070/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Symantec Altiris Deployment
Solution, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose
potentially sensitive information and gain escalated privileges.

1) The Aclient process runs with SYSTEM privileges and allows opening
and execution of arbitrary files with SYSTEM privileges via the
browser option.

2) An input validation error can be exploited to e.g. read privileged
system files via directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 6.x SP2 (#1) and 6.8 SP2
(#2).

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.8.380.0 (see vendor's advisories for more
information).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
1) Mazin Faour, Information Risk Management
2) Manuel Santamarina Suarez

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.10.31a.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.10.31.html

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