CVE-2017-16378 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101821 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039791 https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb17-36.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8