The flaw, rated "highly critical" by tracking firm Secunia, is caused by the improper processing of bitmap files in Adobe Photoshop and can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. If successful, attackers can launch arbitrary code that could compromise a user's system by duping users into opening a malicious file.
While public code has been posted by a researcher named Marsu, there are no reports of active exploits.
The bug resides in Photoshop CS2 and CS3, according to a Secunia advisory. As users await a patch, experts recommend not opening untrusted bitmap files, with extensions .bmp, .dib and .rle.
An Adobe spokesperson could not be reached for comment.
Flaw in Adobe Photoshop could compromise systems
A popular Adobe image-editing program contains a major vulnerability for which public exploit code is available, researchers said today.
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