National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6827

Overview

The ListView control in the Client GUI (AClient.exe) in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x before 6.9.355 SP1 allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges and execute arbitrary commands via a "Shatter" style attack on the "command prompt" hidden GUI button to (1) overwrite the CommandLine parameter to cmd.exe to use SYSTEM privileges and (2) modify the DLL that is loaded using the LoadLibrary API function.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2876

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2876

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.10.20a.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.10.20a.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.insomniasec.com/advisories/ISVA-081020.1.htm

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.insomniasec.com/advisories/ISVA-081020.1.htm

External Source: XF

Name: symantec-ads-clientgui-command-execution(46006)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46006

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021071

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021071

External Source: BID

Name: 31766

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31766

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31773

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31773

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 49426

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/49426

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081020 Insomnia : ISVA-081020.1 - Altiris Deployment Server Agent - Privilege Escalation

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122460544316205&w=2