An exploit is now available at exploit-db.com for the Symantec End Point Protection privilege escalation vulnerability. Symantec released a patch for this issue earlier this week [1].

The vulnerability requires normal-user access to the affected system and can be used to escalate privileges to fully control the system (instead of being limited to a particular user) so this will make a great follow up exploit to a standard drive-by exploit that gains user privileges.

We have gotten some reports that users have problems installing the patch on legacy systems (e.g. Windows 2003). Applying the patch just fails in these cases and appears to have no ill effect on system stability.

[1] http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH223338

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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
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