A vulnerability has been identified in Altiris Deployment Solution, which could be exploited by malicious users to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused due to the Aclient process being run with SYSTEM privileges, which could be exploited by local attackers to open and execute arbitrary files and binaries with elevated privileges using the Log File Viewer.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Andy Davis (Information Risk Management).
ChangeLog
2007-08-14 : Initial release
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