CVE-2009-2996 — Out-of-bounds Write in Adobe Acrobat

CWE-3997 documents4 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
19.3%
top 4.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Adobe AcrobatAdobe Acrobat Reader
Timeline
PublishedOct 19
Latest updateMay 2

Description

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2985.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDadobe/acrobat_reader9.1.3+25
▶NVDadobe/acrobat9.1.3+23

Patches

Patch: www.adobe.com ↗Patch: www.us-cert.gov ↗Patch: www.vupen.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-wfxm-x338-3x9x: Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7↗2022-05-02
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GHSA
GHSA-m324-m3w8-rqmj: Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7↗2022-05-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
acroread: Multiple arbitrary code execution fixes in 8.1.7 (APSB09-15)↗2009-10-13
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Red Hat
acroread: Multiple arbitrary code execution fixes in 8.1.7 (APSB09-15)↗2009-10-13
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
acroread: Multiple arbitrary code execution fixes in 8.1.7 (APSB09-15)↗2009-10-13
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