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>> Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management Privilege Escalation

Title : Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management Privilege Escalation
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0044
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5665
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-01-07


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A vulnerability has been identified in Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management (ESM), which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error in the STEngine service that generates diagnostic reports in an insecure manner, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.

Affected Products

Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management (ESM) version 3.5 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.5.0.82 :
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=5Y6xbs-OKLE~

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0044
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=635

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Stephen Fewer (Harmony Security) via iDefense Labs.

ChangeLog

2008-01-07 : Initial release

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