Hey Jon, I am sorry about the space after the "~", That was a typo.
Its been tested it on all the versions prior to MR4MP1 since the RTM(11.0.776)
But what's interesting is that the process isn't crashing. But a possible arbitrary execution of code.
I will do some more research into it to come up with an exploit with it. Thank you. Regards, Sandeep .-------------------------------------------------- From: "Jon Kloske" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:11 AM To: "Sandeep Cheema" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: SEP(Symantec) Bug
Hi Sandeep, Are you saying this is supposed to affect 11.0.4000.x? If so, what sub-sub-minor versions did you test it on? I just tested this on 11.0.4000.2295 (on a managed client) and all it did was crash the smc.exe process started by the command you supplied, not smcgui.exe process. I tested as an administrator and an unprivileged user and got the same results - smc.exe crashes, but not the smcgui.exe process. It would be interesting if you could provide more information, since if this is actually doing what you say it's doing it would be a horrifying attack vector for worms and viruses. As an aside, I noticed that if I run "smc.exe -p" it crashes too, with or without the tilde ("~") on the end. If I run "smc -p" (omit the .exe) it doesn't crash, but "smc -p ~" crashes. (qualifying note: in all these cases this is just the smc.exe process that was started by the command that crashed, not the smcgui.exe process.) And yes, I tried adding the space after the tilde as you originally quoted in the email :) Regards, Jon. ps: A list of smc.exe command line parameters is available here: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/904c88a5602c2de388 2573410063493c/d02aafed7241b975802573aa0037fb30?OpenDocument -- _________________ Jon Kloske [ITIG] Systems Programming Manager [email protected] :: x54193 :: 78-516B Faculty of EAIT, UQ :: CRICOS No. 00025B-----Original Message----- From: Sandeep Cheema [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 12:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: SEP(Symantec) Bug Hi, There is a bug with the "Symantec Endpoint Protection"( Tested on all versions till 11.0.4000) When you execute the following command "smc.exe -p ~ " the smcgui.exe crashes. You don't need admin privilege for this. Regards, Sandeep 51l3n7[at]live.in
