bellick has discovered a vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop Elements, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an insecure Discretionary Access Control List (DACL) for the "Adobe Active File Monitor V8" service, which can be exploited to e.g. change certain properties of the service and execute arbitrary commands with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is confirmed in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 (20090905.r.605812) and reported in Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to a fixed version or apply the recommended workaround.
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Changelog
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Original Advisory
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-17.html

bellick:
http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_adobe_pe_local.html

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