CVE-2024-49551

Summary

CVE-2024-49551 is a newly identified vulnerability that impacts Media Encoder versions 25.0 and 24.6.3, and older releases. This issue constitutes an out-of-bounds write vulnerability, which means that data is being written beyond the intended boundaries of a memory buffer. Consequently, an attacker could potentially inject arbitrary code, gaining execution privileges equivalent to the current user. However, for an attack to be successful, the victim must open a specially crafted file, indicating a degree of user interaction is required.

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