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Symantec Norton Antivirus For Macintosh DiskMountNotify Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Symantec Norton Antivirus for Macintosh is susceptible to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly utilize the PATH environment variable in a setuid-superuser binary.

This vulnerability allows local attackers to gain superuser privileges, leading to complete compromise of the affected computer.







 

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