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CVE-2022-34244: Adobe Security Bulletin

Adobe Photoshop versions 22.5.7 (and earlier) and 23.3.2 (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.

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Security update available for Adobe Photoshop | APSB22-35

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB22-35

July 12,  2022

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Photoshop for Windows and macOS. This update resolves a critical vulnerability and an important vulnerability.  Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution and memory leak.

Affected Versions

22.5.7 and earlier versions

23.3.2 and earlier versions

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

Updated versions

Platform

Priority

Photoshop 2021

22.5.8

Windows and macOS

3

Photoshop 2022

23.4.1

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 Number

Use After Free (CWE-416)

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-2022-34243

Access of Uninitialized Pointer (CWE-824)

Memory Leak

Important

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2022-34244

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following researcher for reporting this issue and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:

  • Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative - CVE-2022-34243, CVE-2022-34244

For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html, or email [email protected].

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