From: Thor (Hammer of God) (thorhammerofgod.com)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2006 - 14:19:40 CST

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On 12/5/06 11:16 AM, "eugeny gladkih" <johndrweb.com> spoketh to all:

>>>>>> "MS" == Michael Scheidell <scheidellsecnap.net> writes:
>
>>> we've found local privilege escalation in Symantec LiveState agent.
>>>
>>> PoC:
>>>
>>> 1. kill shstart.exe process
>
> MS> Wouldn't you have to be administrator to kill shstart.exe?
>
> LocalSystem account has more privilegies then administrator's one.

The local administrator can do whatever he wants, including just setting the
startup context of a service to run as LocalSystem. Any "privileged
escalation" that requires you to already be an administrator is not an issue
at all, period. For the one-millionth-and-second time, any "issue" that
begins with "if you are a local administrator, then you can..." is a
non-issue and a waste of everyone's time.

That is the skinny on that.

t

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