VDB-1562 · CVE-2005-4708 · BID 13925

Adobe Macromedia Products Licensing Service memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Macromedia Products (affected version unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Licensing Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Adobe Macromedia MX 2004 products, Captivate, Contribute 2, Contribute 3, and eLicensing client install the Macromedia Licensing Service with the Users group permitted to configure the service, including the path to executable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code as Local System.

The weakness was disclosed 06/10/2005 with Macromedia (Website). The advisory is available at macromedia.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-4708 since 02/02/2006. The attack can only be done within the local network. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at download.macromedia.com.

Productinfo

Vendor

Adobe

Name

Macromedia Products

License

commercial

CPE 2.3info

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.9

VulDB Base Score: 8.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.9
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Patch: download.macromedia.com

Timelineinfo

06/09/2005 🔍
06/10/2005 +1 days 🔍
06/10/2005 +0 days 🔍
06/14/2005 +4 days 🔍
12/31/2005 +200 days 🔍
02/02/2006 +33 days 🔍
02/04/2006 +2 days 🔍
07/03/2019 +4896 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: macromedia.com
Researcher: http://www.macromedia.com
Organization: Macromedia
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2005-4708 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1014166
SecurityFocus: 13925 - Macromedia eLicensing Client Activation Code Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 15654 - Macromedia Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 22916 - Macromedia Multiple Products Licensing Service Path Subversion Local Privilege Escalation
Vupen: ADV-2005-0723

Entryinfo

Created: 06/14/2005 14:47
Updated: 07/03/2019 12:09
Changes: 06/14/2005 14:47 (66), 07/03/2019 12:09 (6)
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