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High · 8.8 CVE-2021-28558 EUVD-2021-15233GHSA-4xj3-h4xr-2j4m

Adobe Acrobat Reader heap-based buffer overflow could lead to arbitrary code execution

Published Sep 2, 2021 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by adobe

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the PDFLibTool component. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Adobe Acrobat Reader unspecified – ≤ 2020.001.30020, unspecified – ≤ 2021.001.20150, unspecified – ≤ 2017.011.30194, unspecified – ≤ None —

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