Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer in Adobe XMP-Toolkit-SDK - CVE-2021-36046

 

Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer in Adobe XMP-Toolkit-SDK - CVE-2021-36046

Published: August 18, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU55942
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36046
CWE-ID: CWE-788
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it using the affected software, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


Affected software

Adobe XMP-Toolkit-SDK
Ubuntu
exempi (Ubuntu package)
libexempi3 (Ubuntu package)
libexempi8 (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2021-36046

Install updates from vendor's website.

Adobe XMP-Toolkit-SDK - update to 2021.07
exempi (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.4.5-2ubuntu0.1, 2.5.1-1ubuntu0.1, 2.5.2-1ubuntu0.21.10.1, 2.5.2-1ubuntu0.22.04.1
libexempi3 (Ubuntu package) - update to 2.4.5-2ubuntu0.1
libexempi8 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.5.1-1ubuntu0.1, 2.5.2-1ubuntu0.21.10.1, 2.5.2-1ubuntu0.22.04.1

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