CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-16029

Use After Free

Published: Jan 18, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
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 2019.008.20081 and earlier, 2019.008.20080 and earlier, 2019.008.20081 and earlier, 2017.011.30106 and earlier version, 2017.011.30105 and earlier version, 2015.006.30457 and earlier, and 2015.006.30456 and earlier have a use after free vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Acrobat_dc Adobe 15.006.30060 (including) 15.006.30457 (including)
Acrobat_dc Adobe 15.008.20082 (including) 19.008.20081 (including)
Acrobat_dc Adobe 17.011.30056 (including) 17.011.30106 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 15.006.30060 (including) 15.006.30457 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 15.008.20082 (including) 19.008.20081 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 17.011.30059 (including) 17.011.30106 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References