Marcin Towalski and Cory Duplantis of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. LEADTOOLS is a collection of toolkits designed to perform a variety of functions aimed at integrating documents, multimedia and imaging technologies into applications. The vulnerabilities could be exploited by malicious actors to carry out a number of actions, including denial-of-service conditions and the execution of code remotely. The following SNORT rules will detect exploitation attempts. The following rules may be released at a future date and current rules are subject to change pending additional vulnerability information.”]
Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/11/vulnerability-spotlight-code-execution.html