Symantec Altiris Notification Server Agents Shatter Attack Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	27645
Class:	Design Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-0716
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Feb 06 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:33PM
Credit:	Brett Moore of Insomnia Security discovered this issue.
Vulnerable:	Symantec Altiris Notification Server 6.0 SP3 Symantec Altiris Notification Server 6.0 SP2 Symantec Altiris Notification Server 6.0 SP1 Symantec Altiris Notification Server 6.0
Not Vulnerable:	Symantec Altiris Notification Server 6.0 SP3 R7

Symantec Altiris Notification Server Agents Shatter Attack Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Symantec Altiris Notification Server Agents are prone to shatter attacks that can result in an escalation of privileges.

Successful exploits will completely compromise affected computers.

Symantec Altiris Notification Server Agents Shatter Attack Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any working exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Symantec Altiris Notification Server Agents Shatter Attack Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Symantec released version 6.0 SP3 R7 to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


Symantec Altiris Notification Server 6.0 SP3

• Symantec Altiris_NS_6_0_SP3_KB35803.exe
  http://www.solutionsam.com/solutions/6_0/Altiris_NS_6_0_SP3_KB35803.ex e

Symantec Altiris Notification Server Agents Shatter Attack Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

• Altiris Home Page (Altiris)
  
• ISVA-080623.1 Altiris Notification Server Agent - Privilege Escalation (Insomnia Security)
  
• SYM008-002 Symantec Altiris Notification Server Agent Privilege Escalation Vulne (Symantec)