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TITLE:
Symantec Enterprise Security Manager Remote Upgrade Missing
Authentication

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24767

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24767/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Symantec Enterprise Security Manager 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/7366/
Symantec Enterprise Security Manager 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/2346/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec Enterprise Security
Manager (ESM), which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a vulnerable system.

The problem is that the ESM agent remote upgrade interface does not
authenticate the source of remote upgrade requests. This can be
exploited to e.g. deploy a malicious program to a vulnerable system
via a specially crafted ESM remote upgrade request.

All versions of ESM are reportedly affected, with the exception of
ESM agents running on the following platforms since they do not
support remote upgrade:
* NetWare 6.0
* NetWare 6.5
* OS/400 V5R2
* OS/400 V5R3
* OpenVMS AXP 7.2
* OpenVMS AXP 7.3

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.04.05b.html

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.04.05d.html

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