CVE-2007-1227

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Mcafee
Status
Virex
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 March 2007

Summary

VShieldCheck in McAfee VirusScan for Mac (Virex) before 7.7 patch 1 allow local users to change permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /Library/Application Support/Virex/VShieldExclude.txt, as demonstrated by symlinking to the root crontab file to execute arbitrary commands.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22744
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461485/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://osvdb.org/33797
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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