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:
* Adobe Creative Suite 2
* Adobe Photoshop CS2
* Adobe Illustrator CS2

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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