TITLE:
Adobe Products Insecure Default File Permissions
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18698
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18698/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Manipulation of data, Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
Adobe Photoshop CS2
http://secunia.com/product/6151/
Adobe Illustrator CS2
http://secunia.com/product/7061/
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard
http://secunia.com/product/7390/
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium
http://secunia.com/product/7389/
DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in some Adobe products, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security
restrictions or gain escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to insecure default file permissions
being set on the installed files and folders. This allows any
non-privileged users on the system to remove the files or replace
them with malicious binaries.
The security issue has been reported in the following products:
SOLUTION:
Apply AdobeSecurityPatcher.
Adobe Illustrator CS2 (Windows):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3308
Adobe Illustrator CS2 (Mac OS):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3307
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Windows):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3306
Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Mac OS):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3305
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium (Windows):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3304
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium (Mac OS):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3303
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard (Windows):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3230
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard (Mac OS):
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3223
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Sudhakar Govindavajhala and Andrew Appel of
Princeton University.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332644.html
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