CVE-2021-39847

Publication date 1 September 2021

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

XMP Toolkit SDK version 2020.1 (and earlier) is affected by a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a crafted file.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
exempi 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.5.2-1ubuntu0.22.04.1
21.10 impish
Fixed 2.5.2-1ubuntu0.21.10.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.5.1-1ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.4.5-2ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable

Notes

mdeslaur

fixed in adobe's 2021.07 code drop

Patch details

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Package Patch details
exempi

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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