Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec Altiris Notification Server, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Symantec Altiris Notification Server Agent GUI Privilege Escalation
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30741
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30741/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
Altiris Agent 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/11609/
Altiris Notification Server 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/17482/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Symantec Altiris Notification
Server, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the
Altiris Notification Server Agent GUI and can be exploited to gain
escalated privileges.
The vulnerability reportedly affects version 6.X (all builds).
SOLUTION:
Update to 6.0 SP3 R8 (KB 39159).
http://kb.altiris.com/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Brett Moore of Insomnia Security.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SYM08-014:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.06.17.html
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