CVE-2010-2883
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.3 · Out-of-bounds write · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
7.3CVSS HIGH exploited
Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Added to KEV 2022-06-08. US federal agencies must patch by 2022-06-22.
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document with a long field in a Smart INdependent Glyphlets (SING) table in a TTF font, as exploited in the wild in September 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)82%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41340Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43025Advisory
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.htmlAdvisory
- http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/09/return-of-unpublished-adobe.html
- http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2010/09/10/brief-analysis-on-adobe-reader-sing-table-parsing-vulnerability-cve-2010-2883.aspx
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-08.xmlAdvisory