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olh21
olh21
Inspiring
November 28, 2024
Question

Photoshop quit abruptly when trying to open an incorrect sbsar file in parametric filter

  • November 28, 2024
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I downloaded a substabce texture from [link removed] renamed the zip containing the sbsasm and xml to sbsar and opened in the the parametric filter. it loads but instant quit photoshop when loading. I suspect this could lead to some creepy buffer overflower error that might be used eventually to some kind of viral attack ( not sure ) . 
But anyway it's better to fix this behaviour so people would forge false sbsar file to kill or worse photoshop 

By the way if someone knows how to go from the zip containing the sbsam and xml to a valid sbsar i am interested 😉

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CShubert
Community Manager
CShubertCommunity Manager
Community Manager
December 2, 2024

Hi @olh21 , not all Substance textures created by the user will work with the Parametric Filters plugin. There’s a specific process you need to follow in Substance Designer to create filters that work as expected in Photoshop using the Parametric Filters plugin.

 

Are you currently using the Substance application to create these files or looking to create your own filter inside of Ps?

 

Thanks,

Cory - Photoshop Product Manager

olh21
olh21Author
Inspiring
December 6, 2024

Hi thanks for the answer. I downloaded it so I don't know how it was made. But this is not my problem the problem is the bad error handling by the plugin that cause Photoshop to crash. It should properly return a message error not crash. A crash is always a security issue and might be used to inject harmful code. 

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