Fortinet Discovers Adobe Photoshop Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop CC.

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows.

A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in Photoshop CC. The vulnerability is caused by a crafted PCX file which causes an out of bounds memory access. It could allow malicious users to create code execution scenarios.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Adobe.Photoshop.CC.PCX.Memory.Corruption
Released Mar 22, 2017

Users should apply the solution provided by Adobe.

Additional Information

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Adobe on Jan. 3, 2017.

Adobe confirmed the vulnerability on Jan. 25, 2017.

Adobe patched the vulnerability on Apr. 11, 2017.


Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

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