CVE-2021-40732

Publication date 13 October 2021

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
exempi 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.5.2-1ubuntu0.22.04.1
21.10 impish
Fixed 2.5.2-1ubuntu0.21.10.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.5.1-1ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.4.5-2ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable

Notes

mdeslaur

fixed in adobe's 2021.08 code drop

Patch details

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Package Patch details
exempi

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

References

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