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Posted on 15 September 2006
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Layered Defense Advisory 13 September 2006
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1) Affected Software
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.0
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.1
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2) Severity
Rating: Medium risk
Impact: Execution of arbitrary code, rights
escalation and at a minimum, denial of service.
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3) Description of Vulnerability
A format string vulnerability was discovered
within Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition. The
vulnerability is due to improper processing of
format strings within Tamper Protection and Virus
Alert Notification message fields. A local user
could replace the Tamper Protection and Virus
Alert Notification messages with a specially
crafted format string which could allow access to
the process stack. If successfully exploited,
this could allow the user to execute code of the
attacker’s choice with elevated privileges, on the local system.
Other effected software identified by vendor:
Symantec Client Security 3.0
Symantec Client Security 2.x
Symantec Client Security 1.x
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4) Solution
Solutions to fix vulnerability are addressed within Symantec Advisory
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.09.13.html
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5) Time Table
01/08/2006 – Reported Vulnerability to Vendor.
09/13/2006 – Vendor Public disclosure.
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6) Credits
Discovered by Deral Heiland, www.LayeredDefense.com
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7) References
CVE Reference:
CVE-2006-3454 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3454
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9) About Layered Defense
Layered Defense, Is a group of security
professionals that work together on ethical
Research, Testing and Training within the information security arena.
http://www.layereddefense.com
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