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NoneSeverity
Medium
| Remote Access |
Yes |
| Local Access |
No |
| Authentication Required |
No |
| Exploit publicly available |
No
|
Overview
Norton and Symantec products that utilize SYMLTCOM.dll are susceptible to input validation errors that can lead to a buffer overflow.Affected Product(s)
| Product |
Version |
Solution(s) |
| N360 |
1.0 and 2.0 |
Run LiveUpdate in interactive mode
|
| Norton Internet Security |
2006 through 2008 |
| Norton AntiVirus |
| Norton SystemWorks |
| Norton Confidential |
| Symantec Client Security |
3.0.x |
Upgrade to SCS 3.1 MR9 |
| 3.1.x |
Upgrade to MR9
|
Details
Symantec was notified of a browser-based ActiveX input validation issue in SYMLTCOM.dll that can potentially be used to produce a buffer overflow. Improperly validated information sent to the .dll can reduce the stability of the products by overwriting unauthorized portions of memory. This failure could potentially result in a browser crash or, possibly unauthorized use of methods allowing access to system information. If successfully exploited, this issue could result in a stack overflow with the potential for malicious code execution in the context of the user’s browser.
The impact of this threat is considerably lessened as it requires leveraging other vulnerabilities to gain access to the system. It can only be used against a specific domain.
To exploit successfully, an attacker would need to be able to effectively masquerade as an authorized site and entice a user to click on their specific URL for the malicious code to successfully impact the customer’s system.Symantec Response
Symantec product engineers have released a fix via LiveUpdate for affected Norton Consumer products and a fix in MR9 for affected Symantec Enterprise Products. Symantec recommends all customers apply the latest available updates to protect against threats of this nature.
Symantec is not aware of any exploitation of or adverse customer impact from these issues.Mitigations
Symantec Security Response has released an IPS signature,
23214 - HTTP Symantec NAV ActiveX BO
to detect and block attempts to exploit this issue. Signature will be available through normal updates.Best Practices
As part of normal best practices, Symantec strongly recommends:
- Restrict access to administration or management systems to privileged users.
- Restrict remote access, if required, to trusted/authorized systems only.
- Run under the principle of least privilege where possible to limit the impact of exploit by threats.
- Keep all operating systems and applications updated with the latest vendor patches.
- Follow a multi-layered approach to security. Run both firewall and anti-malware applications, at a minimum, to provide multiple points of detection and protection to both inbound and outbound threats.
- Deploy network and host-based intrusion detection systems to monitor network traffic for signs of anomalous or suspicious activity. This may aid in detection of attacks or malicious activity related to exploitation of latent vulnerabilities
Credit
Symantec would like to thank VUPEN Security(
http://www.vupen.com) for reporting this issue and coordinating with Symantec to resolution.
References
BID: Security Focus,
http://www.securityfocus.com, has assigned a Bugtraq ID (BID) 38217 to these issues for inclusion in the Security Focus vulnerability database.
CVE: These issues are candidates for inclusion in the CVE list (
http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes names for security problems. CVE-2010-0107 has been assigned to the issue.
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