Vulnerability CVE-2006-4266


Published: 2006-08-21   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.0.33, and possibly earlier, does not properly protect Norton registry keys, which allows local users to provide Trojan horse libraries to Norton by using RegSaveKey and RegRestoreKey to modify HKLM\SOFTWARE\Symantec\CCPD\SuiteOwners, as demonstrated using NISProd.dll. NOTE: in most cases, this attack would not cross privilege boundaries, because modifying the SuiteOwners key requires administrative privileges. However, this issue is a vulnerability because the product's functionality is intended to protect against privileged actions such as this.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Norton DLL faking via \'SuiteOwners\' protection bypass Vulnerability
David Matousek
23.08.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.6/10
4.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Symantec -> Norton personal firewall 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1428
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Norton-DLL-faking-via-SuiteOwners-protection-bypass.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443632/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19585

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