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PCWorks: Symantec AntiVirus & other Products Alert Notification Two Vulnerabilities
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2006-09-14 12:25:50
TITLE:
Symantec Products Alert Notification Two Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21884

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.c
om/advisories/21884/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Symantec Client Security 3.x
http://secunia.com/p
roduct/6649/
Symantec Client Security 2.x
http://secunia.com/p
roduct/3478/
Symantec Client Security 1.x
http://secunia.com/p
roduct/2344/
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.x
http://secunia.com/p
roduct/3549/
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.x
http://secunia.com/pr
oduct/659/
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.x
http://secunia.com/p
roduct/5555/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Symantec Client 
Security
and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, which can be 
exploited by
malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or

gain
escalated privileges.

1) A format string error within the handling of
"Tamper 
Protection"
and "Virus Alert Notification" messages can be
exploited to 
execute
arbitrary code with escalated privileges by replacing the 
message
with a specially crafted format string.

2) Another format string error exists in the alert
notification
process when displaying a notification message upon
detection 
of a
malicious file. This can be exploited to crash the Real Time

Virus
Scan service by replacing the message with a specially
crafted 
format
string.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches (see patch matrix in vendor advisory).

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.c
om/avcenter/security/Content/2006.09.13.html

Layered Defense:
http://layer
eddefense.com/SAV13SEPT.html
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