From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Jul 21 2004 - 07:35:54 CDT

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TITLE:
Sysinternals PsTools Fails to Disconnect from Shares

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12108

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12108/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
Sysinternals PsTools suite
http://secunia.com/product/3706/

DESCRIPTION:
Alan Ridgeway has reported a security issue in PsTools, potentially
allowing malicious users to gain administrative privileges on remote
systems.

The problem is that PsTools fails to properly disconnect from "IPC$"
and "ADMIN$" after use. This may allow users to use these shares to
connect to the remote system with administrative privileges.

SOLUTION:
Only system administrators and trusted users should be granted access
to systems used for system administration purposes.

Reportedly, the latest version properly disconnects when the utility
is closed.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Alan Ridgeway

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=28304

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