Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer in Animate - CVE-2021-42267

 

Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer in Animate - CVE-2021-42267

Published: October 27, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU57679
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-42267
CWE-ID: CWE-788
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Adobe
Affected software:
Animate

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


How to mitigate CVE-2021-42267

Install updates from vendor's website.

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