XMP Toolkit SDK version 2020.1 (and earlier) is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a specially-crafted .cpp file.
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.
| Link | Tags |
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| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/xmpcore/apsb21-65.html | patch vendor advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00032.html | third party advisory mailing list |