Security Advisory SA16541 - Adobe Version Cue VCNative Privilege Escalation

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Secunia Advisory SA16541

Adobe Version Cue VCNative Privilege Escalation

Secunia Advisory

SA16541

Release Date

2005-08-23

Last Update

2005-08-30

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

Adobe Version Cue 1.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2005-1842 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-1843 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

vade79 has reported two vulnerabilities in Adobe Version Cue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

1) The setuid program "VCnative" allows users to specify arbitrary libraries for loading with the "-lib" command line arguments.

2) The setuid program "VCNative" creates log files insecurely, which can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

The vulnerabilities affect versions 1.0 and 1.0.1 for Mac OS X with Version Cue Workspace installed.

Solution
Apply update 2.
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Provided and/or discovered by
vade79

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Original Advisory
Adobe Systems:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/327129.html

iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=296&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=297&type=vulnerabilities

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