Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-40782 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Adobe Media Encoder

Summary

Adobe Media Encoder 15.4.1 (and earlier) is affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

• CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

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