VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2010-2883
CVSS score7.3 HIGH
EPSS probability81.38%
CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability
Published2010-09-09
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Known Exploited Vulnerability
Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Vendor / product: Adobe / Acrobat and Reader
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document with a long field in a Smart INdependent Glyphlets (SING) table in a TTF font, as exploited in the wild in September 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Weakness classification
- CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
Primary references
- psirt@adobe.com — Broken Link
- psirt@adobe.com — Broken Link
- psirt@adobe.com — Broken Link
- psirt@adobe.com — Broken Link
- psirt@adobe.com — Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- psirt@adobe.com — Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- psirt@adobe.com — Third Party Advisory
- psirt@adobe.com — Vendor Advisory
- psirt@adobe.com — Vendor Advisory
- psirt@adobe.com — Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- psirt@adobe.com — Broken Link
- psirt@adobe.com — Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry