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. The vulnerability is caused by a computation that writes data past the end of the intended buffer; the computation is part of the image conversion module that handles Enhanced Metafile Format Plus (EMF+) data. The vulnerability is a result of an out of range pointer offset that is used to access sub-elements of an internal data structure. An attacker can potentially leverage the vulnerability to corrupt sensitive data or execute arbitrary code.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

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

Updated: 2017-12-09T10:57:01

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


Link: CVE-2017-16416

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-09T06:29:02.897

Modified: 2017-12-15T18:05:33.473


Link: CVE-2017-16416

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