Adobe Photoshop Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Adobe Photoshop CS6 (13.0)
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 55333
Cve id: CVE-2012-4170

Photoshop is one of the graphic processing series software developed by Adobe. It is mainly used in image processing and advertisement design.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 (13.0) has a buffer overflow vulnerability when processing files in certain formats. When a victim opens a malicious file, attackers can execute arbitrary code as a victim to control the computer.

<* Source: Francis Provencher

Link: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-20.html
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Adobe
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Adobe has released a Security Bulletin (apsb12-20) and patches for this:

Apsb12-20: Security update available for Adobe Photoshop CS6

Link: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-20.html