Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20099 (and earlier), 20.004.30017 (and earlier) and 17.011.30204 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when parsing a crafted file, which could result in a read past the end of an allocated memory structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: adobe

Published: 2022-01-14T19:05:31.971317Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:09:43.690Z

Reserved: 2021-12-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-44742

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-01-14T20:15:13.837

Modified: 2022-01-21T19:53:51.507

Link: CVE-2021-44742

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