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Macromedia Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA15654

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Release Date:

2005-06-10

Last Update:

2006-02-07

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Macromedia Captivate 1.x
Macromedia Contribute 2
Macromedia Contribute 3
Macromedia Director MX 2004
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004
Macromedia Flash MX 2004
Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004
Macromedia FreeHand MX
Macromedia Studio MX 2004
Macromedia Studio MX 2004 with Flash Pro

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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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