Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
10 Apr. 2012
Summary
This allows local users to gain privileges. NOTE: due to a CNA error, this candidate was also originally assigned to an issue in DiskMountNotify. Use CVE-2005-3270 for the DiskMountNotify issue, and CVE-2005-2759 for the LiveUpdate issue.
Vulnerable Systems:
* Symantec Norton Utilities for Macintosh 8.0
* Symantec Norton System Works for Macintosh 3.0
* Symantec Norton Personal Firewall for Macintosh 3.1
* Symantec Norton Personal Firewall for Macintosh 3.0
* Symantec Norton Internet Security for Macintosh 3.0
* Symantec Norton Antivirus for Macintosh 10.9.1
* Symantec Norton Antivirus for Macintosh 10.0.1
* Symantec Norton Antivirus for Macintosh 10.0 .0
* Symantec Norton Antivirus for Macintosh 9.0.3
* Symantec Norton Antivirus for Macintosh 9.0.2
* Symantec Norton Antivirus for Macintosh 9.0.1
* Symantec Norton Antivirus for Macintosh 9.0 .0
* Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh 3.5
* Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh 3.0.3
* Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh 3.0.2
* Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh 3.0.1
* Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh 3.0
Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
A successful attack can allow the attacker to gain complete control over the affected computer.
Vendor Status:
Symantec as issued an update for this vulnerablity
