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CVE-2007-1227

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.6 Published: 2007-03-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

VShieldCheck in McAfee VirusScan for Mac (Virex) before 7.7 patch 1 allow local users to change permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /Library/Application Support/Virex/VShieldExclude.txt, as demonstrated by symlinking to the root crontab file to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected Platforms

Mcafee Virex

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References