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Adobe Version Cue Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Title : Adobe Version Cue Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1504
CVE ID : CVE-2005-1842 - CVE-2005-1843
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-08-23

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

Two vulnerabilities were identified in Adobe Version Cue, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges.

The first flaw is due to a design error in the setuid root application VCNative when handling the "-lib" command line option, which could be exploited by malicious users to load arbitrary libraries and execute arbitrary commands with root privilges [...]

Affected Products

Adobe Version Cue 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Adobe Version Cue 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)

Credits

Vulnerability reported by iDEFENSE

ChangeLog

2005-08-23 : Initial release
2005-08-30 : Updated Advisory

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