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TITLE:
Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36502

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36502/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Symantec Altiris
Deployment Solution, which can be exploited by malicious, local users
to gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to bypass
certain security restrictions, disclose sensitive information, cause
a DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially compromise a vulnerable
system.

1) An error exists in the DBManager authentication mechanism when
processing incoming network packets. This can be exploited to modify
the Altiris Database and e.g. add or remove users, or potentially
modify scheduled tasks.

2) The Aclient GUI executable is installed with insecure default
permissions. This can be exploited to run arbitrary code with
elevated privileges by replacing the file.

3) An error exists when using the AClient agent with key-based
authentication enabled. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary
commands on client systems by impersonating a legitimate server prior
to the authentication handshake phase.

4) A race condition error in the file transfer functionality can be
exploited to download potentially sensitive files exported by a
server and stop the client update process.

NOTE: If encryption is enabled, this vulnerability can only be
exploited to impact the client update process.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.9 SP3 Build 430:
http://www.altiris.com/download.aspx

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Luke Jennings of MWRInfosecurity.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Symantec (SYM09-011):
http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2009&suid=20090826_00

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