Adobe addressed critical bugs in Illustrator, After Effects Software

Adobe Patch Tuesday addressed multiple vulnerabilities, including critical issues that expose Windows and macOS to hack.

Adobe released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects for both Windows and macOS users.

Adobe addressed four critical issues (CVE-2022-24094, CVE-2022-24095, CVE-2022-24096, and CVE-2022-24097) affecting the After Effects products, successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.    

Below is the list of the issues:

The software giant also addressed a critical buffer overflow issue, tracked as CVE-2022-23187, in Illustrator, that can lead to arbitrary code execution. The flaw was reported by Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs and impacts both Windows and macOS versions of Illustrator 26.0.3 and earlier versions.

The company also fixed an important-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-24090, in the Photoshop software. The successful exploitation of the flaw could lead to memory leak in the context of the current user.   

The good news is that the company was not aware of any exploits in the wild for the above vulnerabilities.

Microsoft also published its Patch Tuesday security updates for February 2023 that addressed 75 flaws, including three actively exploited zero-day bugs.

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.