Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe Media Encoder | APSB19-29

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB19-29

May 14, 2019

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Media Encoder. This update resolves a critical file parsing vulnerability.  Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Adobe Media Encoder

13.0.2

Windows and macOS

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version: 

Adobe recommends updating via the Creative Cloud desktop app’s update mechanism.  For more information, please reference this help page.

Product

Version

Platform

Priority

Adobe Media Encoder

13.1

Windows and macOS

3

For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Admin Console to deploy Creative Cloud applications to end users. Refer to this help page for more information.

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability Category

Vulnerability Impact

Severity

CVE Numbers

Use-After-Free

Remote Code Execution

Critical

CVE-2019-7842

Out-of-bounds Read

Information Disclosure

Important

CVE-2019-7844

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers. 

 Adobe

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