CVE-2007-1227 Information

Description

VShieldCheck in McAfee VirusScan for Mac (Virex) before 7.7 patch 1 allow local users to change permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /Library/Application Support/Virex/VShieldExclude.txt as demonstrated by symlinking to the root crontab file to execute arbitrary commands.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/33797 http://secunia.com/advisories/24337 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2342 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461485/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22744 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017707 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0777 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32729 https://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=518722&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=518722