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Adobe Products Files Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : Adobe Products Files Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-0431
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0525
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-02-02

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in various Adobe products, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain elevated privileges [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/0431
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332644.html
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar/papers/winval.pdf

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Sudhakar Govindavajhala and Andrew Appel.

ChangeLog

2006-02-02 : Initial release

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