CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-49531

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 10, 2024 | Modified: Jan 21, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Acrobat Reader versions 24.005.20307, 24.001.30213, 24.001.30193, 20.005.30730, 20.005.30710 and earlier are affected by a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability that could result in an application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the application, leading to a denial-of-service condition. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Acrobat Adobe 20.001.30002 (including) 20.005.30748 (excluding)
Acrobat Adobe 24.001.30159 (including) 24.001.30225 (excluding)
Acrobat_dc Adobe 15.007.20033 (including) 24.005.20320 (excluding)
Acrobat_reader Adobe 20.001.30002 (including) 20.005.30748 (excluding)
Acrobat_reader_dc Adobe 15.007.20033 (including) 24.005.20320 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References