DH team: Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition Privilege Escalation

From: 3APA3A (3APA3Aat_private)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 03:39:59 PDT

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    Dear Bugtraq,
    
      Product: Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition (Final 7.60.962)
      Vendor: Symantec
      Type: Local
      Risk: High (system privileges)
      Discovered: ERRor <errorat_private> of Domain HELL Team
    
      Description:
    
      Norton Antivirus allows to run winhlp32 in context of local system.
    
      Details:
    
      Norton Antivirus adds "Scan for Viruses..." item to Explorer's context
      menu.  Application  launched if this item is selected has local system
      context.  Application has "Help" button which allows to start winhlp32
      in  context of Local System. winhlp32 allows user to execute code with
      credentials of this application.
    
      Vendor:
    
      According to Symantec reply on the moment this problem was reported to
      Symantec fix was ready and tested:
    
      This vulnerability has been eliminated in current versions of Symantec
      Norton  AntiVirus  Corporate Edition, version 7.5.1 Build 62 and later
      as  well  as  version 7.6.1 Build 35a and later that are available for
      download.
    
      Credits:
    
      This issue was discovered by ERRor of Domain Hell Team.
      
    
    
    
    
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