A vulnerability has been identified in various Adobe products, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain elevated privileges. This flaw is due to insecure default permissions being set on certain files and directories, which could be exploited by unprivileged users to change key program files and replace them with malicious or harmful code that will be executed with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable application.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Sudhakar Govindavajhala and Andrew Appel.
ChangeLog
2006-02-02 : Initial release
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