bugtraq - Re: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability

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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:16:45 +0300
From: eugeny gladkih <john@...eb.com>
To: "Michael Scheidell" <scheidell@...nap.net>
Subject: Re: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation

>>>>> "MS" == Michael Scheidell <scheidell@...nap.net> writes:

 >> we've found local privilege escalation in Symantec LiveState agent.
 >> 
 >> PoC:
 >> 
 >> 1. kill shstart.exe process

 MS> Wouldn't you have to be administrator to kill shstart.exe?

LocalSystem account has more privilegies then administrator's one.

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