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Credit:
The information has been provided by Tal zeltzer.
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-12-018/
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Vulnerable Systems:
* Symantec PCAnywhere
Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
The flaw exists within the awhost32 component which is used when handling incoming connections. This process listens on TCP port 5631. When handling an authentication request the process copies the user supplied username unsafely to a fixed-length buffer of size 0x108. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the SYSTEM account.
Patch Availability:
Symantec has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120124_00
CVE Information:
CVE-2011-3478
Disclosure Timeline:
2011-08-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2012-01-25 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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