Security Advisory

CVE-2007-1227

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-03-02 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 12:50:34
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.