Adobe Security Bulletin

Last updated on May 16, 2021 | Also applies to Adobe Illustrator

Security Updates Available for Adobe Illustrator CC | APSB19-36

Bulletin ID	Date Published	Priority
APSB19-36	November 12, 2019	3

Summary

Adobe has released updates for Adobe Illustrator CC for Windows and macOS. This update resolves critical and important vulnerabilities which could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.

Affected Versions

Product	Version	Platform
Illustrator CC 2019	23.1 and earlier versions	Windows

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following  priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version via the Creative Cloud desktop app's update mechanism. For more information, please reference this help page.

Product	Version	Platform	Priority	Availability
Illustrator CC 2019	24.0	Windows and macOS	3	Download Page

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability Category	Vulnerability Impact	Severity	CVE Numbers
Insecure Library Loading (DLL hijacking)	Privilege Escalation	Important	CVE-2019-7962
Memory Corruption	Arbitrary Code Execution	Critical	CVE-2019-8247
Memory Corruption	Arbitrary Code Execution	Critical	CVE-2019-8248
Binary Planting	Local Code Execution	Critical	CVE-2019-16447

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:

Yongjun Liu of nsfocus security team (CVE-2019-7962)
Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs (CVE-2019-8247, CVE-2019-8248)
Honggang Ren of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs (CVE-2019-16447)

Revisions

December 19, 2019: Inlcuded details about CVE-2019-16447

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