CVE-2017-16372 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Adobe Acrobat

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer4 documents4 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
8.7%
top 7.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Adobe AcrobatAdobe Acrobat DCAdobe Acrobat Reader+1 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 9
Latest updateMay 17

Description

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This issue is due to untrusted pointer dereference in the JavaScript API engine. In this scenario, the JavaScript input is crafted in way that the computation results with pointer to memory locations that do not belong to the relevant process address space. The dereferencing operation is a read operat…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDadobe/acrobat_reader17.0 — 17.011.30066+1
▶NVDadobe/acrobat_reader_dc- — 17.012.20098+1
▶NVDadobe/acrobat17.0 — 17.011.30066+1
▶NVDadobe/acrobat_dc- — 17.012.20098+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-384p-867v-fjvf: An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2017-16372: An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017↗2017-12-09
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

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Zscaler
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