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>> Symantec Discovery Insecure File Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Issue
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Title : Symantec Discovery Insecure File Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Issue
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-2600
CVE ID : CVE-2007-2950
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-07-23
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A vulnerability has been identified in Symantec Discovery, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by insecure permissions being set on the "Discovery" directory, which could be exploited by malicious users to replace certain files with malicious binaries or libraries and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Affected Products
Symantec Discovery version 6.5 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2600
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-59/advisory
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Sven Krewitt (Secunia Research).
ChangeLog
2007-07-23 : Initial release
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