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>> Symantec pcAnywhere Caller File Handling Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Title : Symantec pcAnywhere Caller File Handling Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2874
CVE ID : CVE-2006-3784
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-07-19
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A vulnerability has been identified in Symantec pcAnywhere, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This flaw is due to a design error where Caller Files (CIF) are insecurely stored to and read from the "Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\pcAnywhere\Hosts\" folder, which could be exploited by unprivileged users to gain administrative privileges by creating a specially crafted CIF file and setting the superuser flag.
Affected Products
Symantec pcAnywhere version 12.5 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2874
http://www.digitalbullets.org/?p=3
Credits
Vulnerability reported by zee
ChangeLog
2006-07-19 : Initial release
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