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Adobe Photoshop CS4 TIFF Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 4 May 2010 5257 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Photoshop CS4, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by buffer overflow errors when processing malformed ".TIFF" files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious image file.


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • Adobe Photoshop CS4 version 11.0.0

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

Apply Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 update for Windows :
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4292

Apply Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 update for Macintosh :
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4291


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