OSVDB ID: 76002

Title: Adobe Photoshop Elements Gradient (GRD) File Handling Overflow

Info

Disclosure
Sep 30, 2011

Discovery
Sep 22, 2009

Dates

Exploit
Oct 01, 2011

Solution
Sep 30, 2011

Description

 Adobe Photoshop Elements is prone to an overflow condition. The program fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow. With a specially crafted GRD gradient file, a context-dependent attacker can potentially execute arbitrary code..

Classification

 Location: Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure

Solution

 Upgrade to version 10 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Photoshop Elements

 8.0 20090905.r.605812
8.0

References

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete


Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/76002