Headline
CVE-2023-47044: Adobe Security Bulletin
Adobe Media Encoder version 24.0.2 (and earlier) and 23.6 (and earlier) are affected by an Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Security Updates Available for Adobe Media Encoder | APSB23-63
Bulletin ID
Date Published
Priority
APSB23-63
November 14, 2023
3
Summary
Adobe has released an update for Adobe Media Encoder. This update resolves critical and moderate vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution and memory leak.
Affected Versions
Product
Version
Platform
Adobe Media Encoder
24.0.2 and earlier versions
Windows and macOS
Adobe Media Encoder
23.6 and earlier versions
Windows and macOS
Solution
Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version via the Creative Cloud desktop app’s update mechanism. For more information, please reference this help page.
Product
Version
Platform
Priority
Adobe Media Encoder
24.0.3
Windows and macOS
3
Adobe Media Encoder
23.6.2
Windows and macOS
3
For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Admin Console to deploy Creative Cloud applications to end users. Refer to this help page for more information.
Vulnerability Details
Vulnerability Category
Vulnerability Impact
Severity
CVSS base score
CVSS vector
CVE Numbers
Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
Arbitrary code execution
Critical
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2023-47040
Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
Arbitrary code execution
Critical
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2023-47041
Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122)
Arbitrary code execution
Critical
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2023-47042
Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
Arbitrary code execution
Critical
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2023-47043
Access of Uninitialized Pointer (CWE-824)
Memory leak
Moderate
3.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVE-2023-47044
Acknowledgments
Adobe would like to thank the following for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:
Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative - CVE-2023-47040, CVE-2023-47041, CVE-2023-47042, CVE-2023-47043, CVE-2023-47044
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