CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-16367

Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Published: Dec 09, 2017 | Modified: Dec 14, 2017
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 vulnerability is an instance of a type confusion overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability leads to an out of bounds memory access. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability by using the out of bounds access for unintended reads or writes – potentially leading to code corruption, control-flow hijack, or an information leak attack.

Weakness

The product does not correctly convert an object, resource, or structure from one type to a different type.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Acrobat Adobe * 11.0.22 (including)
Acrobat Adobe 17.0 (including) 17.011.30066 (including)
Acrobat_dc Adobe - (including) 17.012.20098 (including)
Acrobat_dc Adobe 15.0 (including) 15.006.30355 (including)
Acrobat_reader Adobe * 11.0.22 (including)
Acrobat_reader Adobe 17.0 (including) 17.011.30066 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe - (including) 17.012.20098 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 15.0 (including) 15.006.30355 (including)

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