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TITLE:
Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution AClient Password Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29771

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29771/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

REVISION:
1.1 originally posted 2008-04-11

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

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

The problem is that the AClient password is stored in clear text in
memory used by the AClient.exe process. This can be exploited to e.g.
retrieve the password for the local agent admin interface by dumping
the AClient.exe process memory.

Successful exploitation may e.g. allow execution of arbitrary code
with escalated privileges via the local agent admin interface.

The security issue is reported in version 6.8.x (all builds).

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.9.164.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Mazin Faour of Information Risk Management.

CHANGELOG:
2008-04-15: Added CVE reference.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SYM08-011:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.04.10.html

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