Symantec Multiple Product Intel Alert Originator Service Command Execution Vulnerabilty

April 28th, 2009
ZDI-09-060 ZDI-CAN-174

CVE ID

CVE-2009-1429

CVSS Score

None None

Affected Vendors

Symantec

Affected Products

AntiVirus Corporate Edition
Client Security
Endpoint Protection

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, Symantec Client Security and Symantec Endpoint Protection. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists in the Intel LANDesk Common Base Agent bundled with the affected products. When a specially crafted packet is sent to TCP port 12174, the contents of the packet are passed directly to a call to CreateProcessA() as the lpCommandLine argument. The resulting command will be executed with SYSTEM privileges.

Additional Details

Symantec has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2009&suid=20090428_02

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2007-05-22 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2009-04-28 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Tenable Network Security

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