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Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine for Red Hat Linux Has Temporary File Flaws That May Yield Root Privileges to Local Users

Feb 17, 2004 12:12AM PST

Description: Some file permission vulnerabilities were reported in Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine for Red Hat Linux. A local user may be able to obtain elevated privileges on the target system, possibly including root privileges.

AERAsec reported that in the default configuration of the 'Scan_Engine_430-RedHat-1.zip' file, the invocation of LiveUpdate via shell script (liveupdate.sh) will create a log file in the '/tmp' directory using a static file name (LiveUpdate.log).

http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Feb/1009076.html

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