Description: A vulnerability has been reported in various Macromedia products, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The problem is that the configuration for the Macromedia Licensing Service has improper permissions and can be modified by arbitrary users. This may be exploited to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
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