CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-15937

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 12, 2018 | Modified: Feb 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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

Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2018.011.20063 and earlier, 2017.011.30102 and earlier, and 2015.006.30452 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 (including) 15.006.30452 (including)
Acrobat_dc Adobe 15.008.20082 (including) 18.011.20063 (including)
Acrobat_dc Adobe 17.011.30059 (including) 17.011.30102 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 15.006.30060 (including) 15.006.30452 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 15.008.20082 (including) 18.011.20063 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 17.011.30059 (including) 17.011.30102 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References