[SA12944] Altiris Deployment Solution Missing Server Authentication Security Issue

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TITLE:
Altiris Deployment Solution Missing Server Authentication Security
Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12944

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/4070/
Altiris Deployment Solution 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4142/

DESCRIPTION:
Brian Gallagher has reported a security issue in Altiris Deployment
Solution, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise certain systems.

The problem is that the Altiris Deployment Solution client agents
don't verify the authenticity of the Altiris Deployment Solution
server system. This can be exploited by malicious people to install
and execute arbitrary code on client systems by running a rogue
Altiris Deployment Solution server system on the local network.

The security issue has been reported in versions 5.x and 6.1sp1 and
prior.

SOLUTION:
There is no proper solution.

The exposure can be limited by configuring the client to use a fixed
IP address for the Altiris Deployment Solution server system, instead
of relying on multicast to locate it.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Brian Gallagher

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