A vulnerability has been identified in McAfee Virex for Mac, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions or obtain elevated privileges. This issue is due to insecure permissions being set on the "Library/Application/Sypport/Virex/VShieldExecute.txt" file, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary commands with "root" privileges via a symlink attack.
Note : Insecure permissions set on the scan exclusion file "Library/Application Support" could be exploited by malicious users to disable or bypass the scanning feature.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Kevin Finisterre
ChangeLog
2007-02-28 : Initial release
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