Fortinet Discovers Adobe Photoshop CC Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop CC.

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows.

A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in Photoshop CC. The vulnerability is caused by a crafted U3D file which causes an out-of-bounds memory access. It could allow malicious users to create code execution scenarios.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Adobe.Photoshop.Memory.Corruption.CVE-2019-7991
Released Aug 14, 2019

Users should apply the solution provided by Adobe.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Adobe on May 13, 2019.

Adobe confirmed the vulnerability on May 14, 2019.

Adobe patched the vulnerability on August 14, 2019.

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

References

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/photoshop/apsb19-44.html
• CVE-2019-7991

IPS Subscription

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