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>> Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0843
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1473
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-11


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A vulnerability has been identified in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by errors in the Deployment Server Agent (AClient.exe), which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. No further details have been disclosed.

Affected Products

Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution versions 6.8.x

Solution

Upgrade to version 6.9.164 :
http://www.altiris.com/download.aspx

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0843
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.03.10.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Brett Moore (Insomnia Security).

ChangeLog

2008-03-11 : Initial release

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