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Macromedia Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA11123  
Release Date: 2004-03-15

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Macromedia Contribute 2
Macromedia Director MX 2004
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004
Macromedia Flash MX 2004
Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004
Macromedia Studio MX 2004

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Description:
Chris Irvine has discovered a vulnerability in Macromedia MX 2004 products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The problem is that the setuid root file "Library/Application Support/Macrovision/AuthenticationService" is writable by "other". This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a user using the affected products by overwriting the file.

The vulnerability affect Macromedia MX 2004 products and Contribute 2 running on the Mac OS X platform.

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Solution:
Apply updates.

English:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/up...nsing/hotfix/osx_upgrades_1_039en.dmg

French:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/up...nsing/hotfix/osx_upgrades_1_039fr.dmg

German:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/up...nsing/hotfix/osx_upgrades_1_039de.dmg

Italian:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/up...nsing/hotfix/osx_upgrades_1_039it.dmg

Japanese:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/up...nsing/hotfix/osx_upgrades_1_039ja.dmg

Spanish:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/up...nsing/hotfix/osx_upgrades_1_039es.dmg

Provided and/or discovered by:
Chris Irvine of Dark Horse Comics.

Original Advisory:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb04-03.html



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