Fortinet Discovers Adobe Illustrator Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Summary
Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a Memory Corruption vulnerability in Adobe Illustrator.
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows.
A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in Illustrator by FortiGuard Labs. The vulnerability is caused by a crafted Adobe Illustrator Artwork "DWG" file which causes a null pointer dereference. It could allow malicious users to create memory corruption scenarios.
Solutions
FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:Adobe.Illustrator.CVE-2021-40749.DoS
Released Oct 04, 2021
Users should apply the solution provided by Adobe.
Timeline
Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Adobe on August 03, 2021.
Adobe confirmed the vulnerability on August 05, 2021.
Adobe patched the vulnerability on October 26, 2021.