CVE-2017-16378
HighSummary
An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader related to uninitialized pointer access. As a result, an attacker may be able to read sensitive portions of memory.
Risk Assessment
The organization may be exposed to data leakage, which could lead to serious legal and reputational consequences.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update Adobe Acrobat and Reader to the latest version to mitigate the risk associated with this vulnerability.
Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2017.012.20098 and earlier, 2017.011.30066 and earlier, 2015.006.30355 and earlier, and 11.0.22 and earlier.
See all- CVE-2017-16420High
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- CVE-2017-16417High
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- CVE-2017-16413High
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- CVE-2017-16412High
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- CVE-2017-16411High
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- CVE-2017-16407High
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- CVE-2017-16406High
A vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader related to improper EMF processing leads to out of bounds memory access. This can result in code corruption, control-flow hijack, or information leak.
- CVE-2017-16404High
A vulnerability exists in Adobe Acrobat and Reader that allows data to be written past the end of the intended buffer. This issue is related to processing Enhanced Metafile Format Plus (EMF+).
- CVE-2017-16401High
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- CVE-2017-16400High
A vulnerability exists in Adobe Acrobat and Reader due to reading data past the end of the target buffer, resulting from an error in the JPEG 2000 parser. The use of an invalid pointer offset during access to internal data structure fields causes this vulnerability.
Original NVD description (English source)
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 due to a computation that accesses a pointer that has not been initialized; the computation occurs during internal AST thread manipulation. In this case, a computation defines a read from an unexpected memory location. Therefore, an attacker might be able to read sensitive portions of memory.