CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-12799

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 29, 2018 | Modified: Aug 21, 2019
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
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2018.011.20055 and earlier, 2017.011.30096 and earlier, and 2015.006.30434 and earlier have an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Acrobat_dc Adobe 15.006.30060 15.006.30434
Acrobat_dc Adobe 15.008.20082 18.011.20055
Acrobat_dc Adobe 17.011.30059 17.011.30096
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 15.006.30060 15.006.30434
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 15.008.20082 18.011.20055
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 17.011.30059 17.011.30096

Potential Mitigations

References