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Adobe Reader Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 11 Feb 2015 16:36 Release Date: 11 Feb 2015 3928 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Clients - Productivity Products

TYPE: Productivity Products

A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within CoolType.dll and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

 

Note: No patch is currently available.


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • Version 11.0.10 running on OS X

Solutions

  • No patch is currently available. The vendor is planning to release a fix within the week of the 10th February, 2015.

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