CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-1226
4.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-03-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.1 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
McAfee VirusScan for Mac (Virex) before 7.7 patch 1 has weak permissions (0666) for /Library/Application Support/Virex/VShieldExclude.txt, which allows local users to reconfigure Virex to skip scanning of arbitrary files.
Affected configurations
• mcafee virex (<= 7.7)
References
- http://osvdb.org/33798 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24337 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2342 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461485/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22744 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017707 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0777 www.vupen.com
- https://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=518722&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=518722 Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/33798 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24337 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2342 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461485/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22744 Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017707 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0777 www.vupen.com
- https://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=518722&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=518722 Vendor Advisory