[NT] Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition Privilege Escalation

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Date: 10/25/02 

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Date: 25 Oct 2002 15:14:34 +0200

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  Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition Privilege Escalation
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SUMMARY

A security vulnerability in Norton Antivirus allows local attackers to run
winhlp32 in context of local system. This would allow them to gain
elevated privileges.

DETAILS

Vulnerable systems:
 * Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition version 7.60 Build 962

 * Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition version 7.5.1 Build 62
 * Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition version 7.6.1 Build 35a

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 starting winhlp32 in
context of Local System. Winhlp32 allows user to execute code with
credentials of this application.

Vendor response:
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.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:3APA3A@SECURITY.NNOV.RU>
3APA3A.
This issue was discovered by ERRor of Domain Hell Team.

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