Fortinet Discovers Adobe Illustrator NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a null pointer dereference vulnerability in Adobe Illustrator.

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows.

A denial-of-service vulnerability has been discovered in Illustrator by FortiGuard Labs. The vulnerability is caused by a flaw in parsing a crafted "CDR" file which causes a null pointer dereference. It could lead to application denial-of-service.

Solutions

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

Adobe.Illustrator.CVE-2022-23198.Null.Pointer.Dereference
Released Dec 13, 2021

Users should apply the solution provided by Adobe.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Adobe on October 18, 2021.

Adobe confirmed the vulnerability on October 20, 2021.

Adobe patched the vulnerability on February 8, 2022.

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Yonghui Han of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

References

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/illustrator/apsb22-07.html
• CVE-2022-23198

IPS Subscription

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