Adobe Media Encoder MP4 File Parser heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Media Encoder and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component MP4 File Parser. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2023-47042. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Media Encoder (the affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component MP4 File Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. 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(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 11/15/2023 as ZDI-23-1664. It is possible to read the advisory at zerodayinitiative.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-47042 since 10/30/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Adobe

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• Media Encoder

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• free

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• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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