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Adobe DNG SDK version 1.7.1 build 2471 and earlier contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. Processing a maliciously crafted supported file can cause an out-of-bounds memory write, potentially enabling arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.
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This 77-file research repository is a functional proof-of-concept and exploitability-analysis suite for CVE-2026-27280, a CWE-787 out-of-bounds write in Adobe DNG SDK rendering code used by Android. The root defect is in dng_render_task::ProcessArea: a tile-sized temporary mask buffer is defined over srcArea but is addressed with dstArea coordinates. Since srcArea is translated by the attacker-controlled DNG crop origin, mask processing writes outside the allocation. The included 2471-to-2502 patch shows the remediation: require equal source/destination area sizes and use srcArea coordinates consistently. Repository structure: 01-vulnerability contains vulnerable/fixed dng_render.cpp versions and their diff. 02-poc contains standalone C++ DNG generators, parser/render loaders, Android AImageDecoder triggers, allocation interposers, and pointer/neighbor probes. 04-evidence records ASAN crashes and Galaxy S25/Android 16 observations. 05-analysis documents root cause, trigger construction, write controllability, mitigations, and limitations. 06-rce-lab extends the work with Scudo allocator experiments, an ImageStats/SubIFD heap-allocation spray injector, displacement sweeps, corruption canaries, and a debug Android APK that snapshots/analyzes heap state around real in-app decodes. English and Italian blog posts reproduce the research narrative. The main delivery vector is a malicious DNG file processed locally by an image viewer, thumbnailer, Gallery, BitmapFactory/ImageDecoder, or AImageDecoder. The repository demonstrates Android public-API reachability and reports Samsung Gallery thumbnail-loader crashes. It also demonstrates silent heap corruption for narrow/primary-Scudo allocation geometries. ImageStats tag injection and SubIFDs supply file-controlled parse-time allocation volume and can bias adjacency toward pointer-bearing dng_image_stats objects; evidence reports a corrupted pointer later reaching free(). However, no reverse shell, command execution, persistence, network callback, or working RCE chain is supplied. Android-specific constraints substantially reduce the primitive to a contiguous write of only 0x3F800000, while allocator integrity checks, tagged pointers, PAC/BTI, and randomized heap layout impede conversion to RCE.
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Critical elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Android System.
Critical Android System elevation-of-privilege vulnerability affecting Android 14, 15, 16, and 16 QPR2.
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