CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-1227
6.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-03-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• mcafee virex (<= 7.7)
• mcafee virex 6.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://osvdb.org/33797 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24337 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2342 Exploit
- 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://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32729 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=518722&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=518722 knowledge.mcafee.com
- http://osvdb.org/33797 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24337 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2342 Exploit
- 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://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32729 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=518722&sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=518722 knowledge.mcafee.com