Adobe Security Bulletin

Security Updates Available for Adobe Media Encoder | APSB20-10

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB20-10

 February 19, 2020

3

Summary

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Media Encoder. This update resolves  a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.   

Affected Versions

Product

Version

Platform

Adobe Media Encoder

14.0 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

Adobe Media Encoder

14.0.3

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

Out-of-bounds Write

Arbitrary Code Execution 

Critical

CVE-2020-3764

Acknowledgments

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

Revisions

February 26, 2020: the solution section was updated to reflect the availability of version 14.0.3 to address CVE-2020-3764.  The bulletin originally referenced version 14.0.2.

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