An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of an out of bounds read vulnerability in the MakeAccesible plugin, when handling font data. It causes an out of bounds memory access, which sometimes triggers an access violation exception. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability by using the out of bounds access for unintended reads, writes, or frees, potentially leading to code corruption, control-flow hijack, or an information leak attack.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102140 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039791 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb17-36.html Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

Published: 2017-12-09T06:00:00

Updated: 2017-12-13T10:57:01

Reserved: 2017-11-01T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-16362

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-09T06:29:01.007

Modified: 2017-12-14T18:56:44.097


Link: CVE-2017-16362

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