KLA10034 Critical Vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop Elements

Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Photoshop Elements. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service or execute arbitrary code via specially designed *.grd & *.abr files.

Original advisories

Adobe bulletin

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

Adobe-Photoshop-Elements

CVE list

CVE-2011-2443 critical

Solution

Update to latest version

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• Adobe Photoshop Elements versions 8.0 and earlier