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 an instance of a use after free vulnerability in the JavaScript engine. The mismatch between an old and a new object can provide an attacker with unintended memory access -- potentially leading to code corruption, control-flow hijack, or an information leak attack. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

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

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:27:03.355Z

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

Link: CVE-2017-16393

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-09T06:29:02.117

Modified: 2017-12-15T15:21:12.770

Link: CVE-2017-16393

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