Adobe Macromedia Products Licensing Service memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Adobe Macromedia Products. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Licensing Service. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-4708. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. No exploit exists. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 13925†), OSVDB (22916†), Secunia (SA15654†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1014166†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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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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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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 🔍
01/19/2025 +6923 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 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-4708
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-1562
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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
SecurityTracker: 1014166
Vupen: ADV-2005-0723

Entryinfo

Created: 06/14/2005 14:47
Updated: 01/19/2025 07:38
Changes: 06/14/2005 14:47 (66), 07/03/2019 12:09 (6), 01/19/2025 07:38 (16)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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