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Adobe Products Insecure Default File Permissions
Secunia Advisory: SA18698
Release Date: 2006-02-03
Popularity: 8,199 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Manipulation of data
Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe Photoshop CS2

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in some Adobe products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions or gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to insecure default file permissions being set on the installed files and folders. This allows any non-privileged users on the system to remove the files or replace them with malicious binaries.

The security issue has been reported in the following products:
* Adobe Creative Suite 2
* Adobe Photoshop CS2
* Adobe Illustrator CS2

Solution:
Apply AdobeSecurityPatcher.

Adobe Illustrator CS2 (Windows):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3308

Adobe Illustrator CS2 (Mac OS):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3307

Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Windows):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3306

Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Mac OS):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3305

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium (Windows):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3304

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium (Mac OS):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3303

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard (Windows):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3230

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard (Mac OS):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3223

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Sudhakar Govindavajhala and Andrew Appel of Princeton University.

Original Advisory:
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332644.html


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