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 issue is due to untrusted pointer dereference in the JavaScript API engine. In this scenario, the JavaScript input is crafted in way that the computation results with pointer to memory locations that do not belong to the relevant process address space. The dereferencing operation is a read operation, and an attack can result with sensitive data exposure.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

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

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:27:02.575Z

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

Link: CVE-2017-16372

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-09T06:29:01.367

Modified: 2017-12-15T14:52:46.107

Link: CVE-2017-16372

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