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Secunia Advisory SA11123

Macromedia Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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SA11123

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Release Date

2004-03-15

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

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

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

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.

Solution
Apply updates.
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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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