Multiple Adobe products BMP image file buffer overflow

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High Risk

Description:

Multiple Adobe products including Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects are vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when parsing malicious BMP images. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted BMP image file containing a malformed header, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

*CVSS:

Base Score:	9.3
Access Vector:	Network
Access Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete
Temporal Score:	8.4
Exploitability:	Functional
Remediation Level:	Unavailable
Report Confidence:	Uncorroborated

Consequences:

Gain Access

Remedy:

No remedy available as of January 2, 2010.

References:

• APSA08-04: Potential vulnerability in Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2.
• BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Apr 21 2008 - 09:43:27 CDT: Adobe Unchecked Overflow.
• BID-28874: Multiple Adobe Products BMP Image Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
• CVE-2008-1765: Buffer overflow in Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2, and possibly After Effects CS3, allows user-assisted remote attackers and physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code via a BMP file with an invalid image header. NOTE: the related issue in Photoshop CS3 is already covered by CVE-2007-2244.
• SA29838: Adobe Products BMP Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
• SECTRACK ID: 1019910: Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition Buffer Overflow in Processing BMP Files Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
• VUPEN/ADV-2008-1317: Adobe Photoshop Album Starter BMP File Code Execution Vulnerability

Platforms Affected:

• Adobe After Effects CS3
• Adobe Photoshop Album Starter 3.2

Reported:

Apr 21, 2008

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