CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-35984

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 20, 2021 | Modified: Sep 01, 2021
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197 (and earlier) are affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue does not requires user interaction.

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 15.008.20082 (including) 21.005.20054 (including)
Acrobat_dc Adobe 17.011.30059 (including) 17.011.30197 (including)
Acrobat_dc Adobe 20.001.30005 (including) 20.004.30005 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 15.008.20082 (including) 21.005.20054 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 17.011.30059 (including) 17.011.30197 (including)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 20.001.30005 (including) 20.004.30005 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References