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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2021-40732 EUVD-2021-27897GHSA-3gp9-w4vx-8hh2

XMP Toolkit SDK Null Pointer Dereference

Published Oct 13, 2021 · Updated Nov 3, 2025 · Assigned by adobe

Description

XMP Toolkit version 2020.1 (and earlier) is affected by a null pointer dereference vulnerability that could result in leaking data from certain memory locations and causing a local denial of service in the context of the current user. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the victim will need to open a specially crafted MXF file.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Adobe XMP Toolkit unspecified – ≤ 2020.1, unspecified – ≤ None —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 exempi 2.6.0-1 —
Debian 13 exempi 2.6.0-1 —
Debian 12 exempi 2.6.0-1 —
Debian 11 exempi 2.5.2-1+deb11u1 DLA-4264-1
Debian 10 exempi 2.5.0-2+deb10u1 DLA-3585-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS exempi 2.5.2-1ubuntu0.22.04.1 USN-5483-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS exempi 2.5.1-1ubuntu0.1 USN-5483-1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS exempi 2.4.5-2ubuntu0.1 USN-5483-1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS exempi No fix yet —

Advisories 3

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