Risk Impact
Medium
Remote Access
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No
—|—
Local Access
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Yes
Authentication Required
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Yes
Exploit publicly available
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No
Product
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Version
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Build
|
Language
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Solution
—|—|—|—|—
LiveUpdate for Macintosh
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3.0.0
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All
|
All
|
Live Update Patch
3.0.1
|
All
|
All
3.0.2
|
All
|
All
3.0.3
|
5
|
English
3.0.3
|
11
|
All
3.5.0
|
47
|
All
Norton AntiVirus
|
9.0.x
|
All
|
All
Norton AntiVirus
|
10.0.0
|
All
|
All
Norton AntiVirus
|
10.0.1
|
All
|
All
Norton Personal Firewall
|
3.0.x
|
All
|
All
Norton Personal Firewall
|
3.1.0
|
All
|
All
Norton Internet Security
|
3.0.x
|
All
|
All
Norton Utilities
|
8.0.x
|
All
|
All
Norton SystemWorks
|
3.0.x
|
All
|
All
Not Affected Product(s)
Product
|
Version
|
Build
|
Language
—|—|—|—
Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh
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10
|
All
|
All
Details
Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh is partially implemented in the Java programming language. The interface to the java interpreter takes input from the LiveUpdate component as command line arguments and passes them to the Java interpreter. This interface is configured to run with System Administrative privileges (SUID). A local user can use the LiveUpdate Java interface to execute Java code with System Administrative rights.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) initiative has assigned CVE Candidate CVE-2005-2759 to this issue.
This issue is a candidate for inclusion in the CVE list (<http://cve.mitre.org>), which standardizes names for security problems.
Symantec Response
A patch has been created and made available for all affected version of the product through Symantec LiveUpdate.
To perform a manual update using Symantec LiveUpdate, users should:
Symantec is not aware of any active attempts against or customers impacted by this issue.
As a part of normal best practices, users should keep vendor-supplied patches for all application software and operating systems up-to-date. Symantec strongly recommends any affected customers update their product immediately to protect against these types of threats.
Symantec thanks iDefense, for notification of this issue and coordinating disclosure as it was resolved